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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Recruitment and retention: Who will be left to care in the future?
By Mark Conrad | 13 February 2018
Auditors, academics, practitioners and unions are pointing to the recruitment and retention issue...
CHILD ABUSE
Council investment after inadequate rating
By Mark Conrad | 12 February 2018
Gloucestershire CC has invested in staff, casework reduction and administration amid warnings the...
SOCIAL CARE
Not enough integration between housing for older people and social care, MPs warn
By Hiba Mahamadi | 09 February 2018
Local authorities need to recognise the importance of quality housing for older people and the ‘m...
FINANCE
Care provider Four Seasons temporarily bailed out
By William Eichler | 09 February 2018
The struggling care provider Four Seasons has today signed a deal with a hedge fund which will se...
SOCIAL CARE
Crisis in social care workforce, report warns
By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2018
The care workforce crisis has been laid bare by a report that warned ministers were not tackling ...
FINANCE
Javid and Gwynne clash over finance settlement
By Dan Peters | 07 February 2018
Communities secretary Sajid Javid clashed today with his Labour rival Andrew Gwynne over errors i...
WHITEHALL
Javid finds extra £166m in final settlement
By Mark Conrad | 06 February 2018
Local government secretary Sajid Javid has found an additional £166m to ease spending pressures i...
WHITEHALL
ADASS gets badass
05 February 2018
The crisis in social care requires a tough, uncompromising response.
SOCIAL CARE
Academics highlight recruitment and retention problems
By Mark Conrad | 05 February 2018
Councils require greater clarity over how their social care market-shaping and commissioning duti...
SOCIAL CARE
Government migration funding formula 'unfair'
By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 February 2018
The council accommodating the second-highest number of asylum-seeking children in the UK has crit...
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- Council backlash over asylum reforms
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Executive Director of Transport
£128,216 – £156,241
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Children and Families
£80,995 - £86,757
Our promise to Sheffield’s children and young people is that Sheffield will be a place where they belong, Apply for this job
Assistant Director of City Transport
£ to match our ambition
You’ll keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice Apply for this job
- Council backlash over asylum reforms
- EXCLUSIVE: LGA reduces transparency of key meeting
- Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience
- Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care
- Exclusive: Councils must be made an equal partner in designing a national care system, says Casey
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