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SOCIAL CARE
Social workers mad at a TV drama need to relax
By Claire Fox | 30 January 2018
Channel 4’s social work-centred drama Kiri has been swept up in a Twitterstorm, with social worke...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Croydon to act on missing children
By Mark Conrad | 29 January 2018
Police officers will be placed inside Croydon LBC as part of an initiative designed to tackle the...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Further deterioration of Sandwell's children's services
By Mark Conrad | 29 January 2018
Sandwell MBC has failed to improve its Ofsted rating for children’s social care and is still mana...
SOCIAL CARE
Judge's warnings over care proceedings
By Mark Conrad | 22 January 2018
Councils should ‘think long and hard’ before embarking on care proceedings against ‘otherwise uni...
WHITEHALL
Inspector arrives amid reorganisation pressure
By Mark Conrad | 16 January 2018
An independent inspector today began investigating Northamptonshire CC’s precarious finances amid...
HEALTH
Welsh councils welcome health and social care review
By William Eichler | 16 January 2018
Welsh local authority leaders have welcomed the publication of a report into the sustainability o...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Child referred to social care every 49 seconds, figures reveal
By Laura Sharman | 12 January 2018
Referrals to council children's services reached 646,120 last year, according to new figures from...
SOCIAL CARE
Scottish homecare services under threat
By Hiba Mahamadi | 11 January 2018
Almost 40% of care at home services in Scotland handed back their contracts to local authorities ...
HEALTH
Council leaders welcome decrease in delayed transfers
By William Eichler | 11 January 2018
Council leaders have welcomed a reduction in the number of days patients who are ready to be disc...
HEALTH
New name is a smokescreen for inaction
By Michael Burton | 10 January 2018
The new labels for the government departments responsible for local government and health and car...
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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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