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COUNCIL TAX

'Outdated and harmful': Council bailiff use soars 30%

By William Eichler | 20 October 2025

The use of bailiffs by local authorities in England and Wales has surged by 30% in just two years...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reorganisation financial risk warning

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025

Local government reorganisation has been highlighted as a key concern by the Public Accounts Comm...

PLANNING

PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'

17 October 2025

MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...

WORKFORCE

Kerswell hands in resignation

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025

Croydon LBC chief executive Katherine Kerswell has handed in her resignation five years after joi...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA: Costs pushing many to financial brink

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025

Emergency government bailout agreements for councils are at risk of becoming ‘normalised’ as cost...

COHESION

Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels

By By Dan Peters | 16 October 2025

Cohesion is ‘core to what we do in local government’, the president of senior officers’ group Sol...

FINANCE

Predictions of low take up for retention pooling scheme

By Joe Lepper | 16 October 2025

Take up of a government invitation to councils to join the business rates retention pooling schem...

SOLACE

SOLACE: Funding fails to offset the years of lost cash, claims president

By Heather Jameson | 16 October 2025

Central government funding for regeneration is positive but ‘can only go so far in offsetting the...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Domestic recruitment and retention challenges persist in adult social care

By Liz Wells | 15 October 2025

England’s adult social care sector faces long-term recruitment and retention challenges as it is ...

PEOPLE

Fair Work Agency chair announced

By Martin Ford | 15 October 2025

Chief executive of the NHS Confederation, Matthew Taylor, has been appointed chair of the Fair Wo...

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Head of Finance Business Partnering

£67,083 - £73,442 per annum (£73,443 - £87,483 Gateway Range)

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Director of Property & Major Programmes

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Redbridge London Borough Council

Director of Commercial

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Redbridge London Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Head of Finance Business Partnering

£67,083 - £73,442 per annum (£73,443 - £87,483 Gateway Range)

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is seeking an experienced and inspiring finance leader Apply for this job

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

Director of Property & Major Programmes

from £113,868 to £123,852

Shape the future of Redbridge’s estate – and leave your mark. Apply for this job

Redbridge London Borough Council

Director of Commercial

from £113,868 to £123,852

Shape the Future of Commercial Excellence in Redbridge Apply for this job

Redbridge London Borough Council