SOCIAL CARE

Let's build on the positives of 2018

By Simon Edwards | 08 January 2019

Director of the CCN Simon Edwards says that while the latest fair funding consultation is on a po...

HEALTH

Number of night-time hospital discharges increases

By Naomi Larsson | 07 January 2019

Rising numbers of elderly and vulnerable patients are being sent home from hospital at night desp...

SOCIAL CARE

Like Mariah Carey, it may be prudent to not want a lot for Xmas this year

By Abdool Kara | 12 December 2018

Despite a number of minor successes, the position of the sector as it approaches the end of the y...

FINANCE

We need to talk about finance

By Piali Das Gupta | 12 December 2018

Piali Das Gupta wants central Government, caught up with Brexit, to start paying attention to the...

FINANCE

Confronting the graph of doom

By Tracie Evans | 12 December 2018

Tracie Evans wonders if this is the right moment to remind everybody that 'we in the sector predi...

BUSINESS

Care Management Group sold for £200m

By Martin Ford | 11 December 2018

A care provider has been sold in a multi-million pound deal, with another company expected to be ...

WHITEHALL

Councils may have to hand back grant

By Dan Peters | 11 December 2018

Some of the extra £55m Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) announced by the chancellor in the Budget ...

WHITEHALL

Future Forum North: 'Government still doesn't think sector is efficient'

By Dan Peters | 07 December 2018

Whitehall remains unconvinced that local government is as efficient as it can be, Smith Square’s ...

SOCIAL CARE

Sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer

By Paul O’Brien | 05 December 2018

Asked what he thought the impact of Brexit would be on local government frontline services, Paul ...

FINANCE

Don't throw out the rule book with the bath water

By Michael Burton | 05 December 2018

Like all complainants, the Local Government Ombudsman is both a nuisance and an asset, but his la...

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Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council

frederica-diamanta

Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council