Solace

By Dawn Roberts | 11 October 2024

Dawn Roberts presents the findings of a report that sets out Scotland’s most pressing workforce c...

LEADERSHIP

Peak performances

By Heather Jameson | 18 September 2024

Around 600 people took part in the Public Sector Challenge earlier this month, scaling the three ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Jones confirms retirement

By Dan Peters | 18 September 2024

Essex CC chief executive Gavin Jones has confirmed he will be retiring from his role in the sprin...

Chiefs call for £250m a year professional training investment

By Dan Peters | 17 September 2024

Senior officers’ organisation Solace has called for a £250m a year Government investment in profe...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

The future really lies with green hydrogen

By Kathy O'Leary | 16 September 2024

What’s clear is hydrogen energy will be a significant part of our future and the potential it hol...

FINANCE

Waiting continues for multi-year settlement despite 'collapse' warnings

By Dan Peters | 11 September 2024

Local government expects another one-year finance settlement despite warnings that failing to add...

RECRUITMENT

Re-evaluating 'normal'

By Steve Guest | 06 August 2024

Hybrid working was accepted by many as being the ‘new normal’ post-lockdown, but recently there h...

FISCAL DEVOLUTION

Fresh fiscal devolution push as cuts loom

By Dan Peters | 01 August 2024

Council chiefs are attempting to push fiscal devolution onto the desks of new ministers as the Go...

LEADERSHIP

A job in the midst

By Ian Fytche | 30 July 2024

Ian Fytche reflects on two decades as a chief executive, the opportunity offered to lead and shap...

ETHICS

We have put up with poor standards for too long

22 July 2024

The new Government approach strikes a different tone, says Graeme McDonald.

Director of Family Help and Safeguarding

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Reading Borough Council

Head of Highways Operations

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Somerset Council

Head of Operational Services

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South Derbyshire District Council