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BUSINESS
Local government leads way on SME procurement spend
By Emily Twinch | 12 May 2025
Councils are bucking the trend with spending on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), figure...
POLITICS
Overseas recruitment for care workers to end
By Liz Wells | 12 May 2025
International recruitment for care workers will end under plans announced by home secretary Yvett...
POLITICS
Think-tank calls for return of Brown's Total Place
By Emily Twinch | 09 May 2025
An initiative from Gordon Brown’s premiership to integrate local public services’ budgets should ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
A time for unity, not division
By Matthew Taylor | 07 May 2025
There is still time to press for more collaborative place working across the public sector, write...
SKILLS
Skills England 'needs time to prove itself'
By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025
The agency created by the Government to boost post-16 skills in England needs at least a year to ...
WHITEHALL
Gould: Test, Learn and Grow pilots having amazing results
By Ann McGauran | 02 May 2025
The Government’s Test, Learn and Grow pilots are already having ‘amazing results’ before money ha...
SOCIAL CARE
Care reform will take a decade to be delivered
By Lee Peart | 02 May 2025
The first phase of social care reform will take 10 years to be fully delivered, it has emerged.
COMMUNITIES
Community duty mooted
By EXCLUSIVE by Joe Lepper | 01 May 2025
The Government is looking to hand all councils an extra duty to involve community groups in their...
POLITICS
Call for greater clarity on new towns
By Joe Lepper | 29 April 2025
Ministers need to be clearer about the Government’s new towns agenda, peers have heard.
COUNCIL TAX
Valuation Office Agency to be axed
By Martin Ford | 29 April 2025
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the body responsible for setting council tax and business rate...
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- More grief ahead as reorganisation is plunged into chaos
- Rayner orders review of local government reorganisation
- The local government reorganisation reset changes the recruitment brief
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Chief Executive
£205,749 to £224,986
Premium jobNorth Yorkshire Council is seeking an exceptional leader to become our next Chief Executive. Apply for this job
Chief Executive
£competitive
We are looking for an exceptional senior leader with a strong record of leading change Apply for this job
Assistant Director Finance & Governance and Deputy Section 151 Officer
up to £121,526 + a monthly car allowance of £200 per month + fringe allowance of £753 per annum
You will lead a broad and influential portfolio including finance, revenues and benefits, procurement, audit, risk, insurance and corporate fraud. Apply for this job
- More grief ahead as reorganisation is plunged into chaos
- Rayner orders review of local government reorganisation
- The local government reorganisation reset changes the recruitment brief
- Future Forum Midlands: Civil servants dismiss timetable speculation for LGR review
- Future Forum Midlands: Two councils using agentic AI for citizen contact
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