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SOLACE

Getting through the greatest challenge of a generation

By Joanne Roney | 14 April 2020

Dealing with COVID-19 is ‘an incredibly tough challenge’ for council leadership, says Joanne Rone...

SOLACE

Our role will be refocused around resilience

By Graeme McDonald | 06 April 2020

Beyond the initial emergency response, we must ensure communities can emerge and re-establish the...

SOCIAL CARE

We will do everything we can to save lives

By Martin Swales | 26 March 2020

The national COVID-19 emergency is seeing the very best of our councils and our workforces and we...

SOLACE

The work of local government has become 'even more urgent'

By Ann McGauran | 26 March 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting ‘the very best of councils and our workforces’, accordin...

PAY

Former Solace chief takes crisis pay cut

By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2020

Former Solace president Jo Miller has taken a 10% pay cut as her council launched a range of meas...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Jenrick urges councils not to delay on coronavirus spending

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2020

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick this week urged council leaders not to put off decision...

SOCIAL CARE

There is still plenty for this Government to 'get done'

By Martin Reeves | 16 March 2020

The Budget package does not give councils any certainty over funding for the short to medium term...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Be more than just good at your job

12 February 2020

Nicola McCoy Brown says that while she hadn’t reached her third decade of work ‘without knowing t...

FINANCE

Scottish councils' improvements 'stalling'

By Martin Ford | 31 January 2020

Spending on culture and leisure, economic development, and roads all fell by around a quarter las...

WHITEHALL

NAO to probe one-off Government funding pots

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2020

The National Audit Office (NAO) is to probe the effect of the Government’s shift towards one-off ...

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Head of Democratic Services, Elections & Monitoring Officer

Grade 12 £67,236 – £71,223 plus £3000pa Statutory Officer Allowance

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Harborough District Council

Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service

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Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority

Finance Business Partner – Housing & HRA

Band I, SCP 44 - 47 (£53,885 - £57,195) per annum

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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Head of Democratic Services, Elections & Monitoring Officer

Grade 12 £67,236 – £71,223 plus £3000pa Statutory Officer Allowance

Premium jobWe are looking for an accomplished and proactive leader for our vacant post of Head of Democratic Services & Elections Apply for this job

Harborough District Council

Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service

£Competitive

Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA) represents a bold new chapter in the region’s history. Apply for this job

Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority

Finance Business Partner – Housing & HRA

Band I, SCP 44 - 47 (£53,885 - £57,195) per annum

If so, we are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner who will report to the Head of Business Partnering for this area. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council