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FINANCE

Local government bears brunt of job losses again, ONS shows

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2013

Local government shed 32,000 posts in the last quarter of 2012 compared with a 4,000 fall in the ...

FINANCE

Ofsted urged to scrap plans to monitor councils' school improvement role

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Council chiefs strongly urge Ofsted to axe ‘inappropriate’ proposals to scrutinise authority-deli...

WHITEHALL

Voting watchdog condemns 'mistaken' assumptions over PCC vote

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Home Office ministers ‘mistakenly’ assumed very act of holding first-ever Police and Crime Commis...

FINANCE

Services will be boosted by pooling budgets, says NAO

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Government should learn lessons from the ‘whole place’ community budget pilots in pioneering bett...

FINANCE

Schools 'under strain' funding 250,000 new places, watchdog warns

By Jonathan Werran | 15 March 2013

NAO report questions if funding allocations to local authorities are sufficient to cope with lar...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Welsh Cabinet reshuffle sees new local government minister

By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2013

A reshuffle of the Welsh Government's cabinet has seen the appointment of former health minister,...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Consortium wins contract to assess troubled families programme

By Jonathan Werran | 15 March 2013

Ecorys UK consortium lands deal to independently evaluate the DCLG’s £448m troubled families prog...

FINANCE

Can Scotland afford to be independent?

By Michael Burton | 14 March 2013

Scotland needs the resources of the whole UK to deal with the grim reality of public finances, sa...

WHITEHALL

Breaking the dependency on the 'Westminster Village'

By Paul Wheeler | 14 March 2013

Paul Wheeler explains how national organisations are turning their backs on the role of local cou...

WHITEHALL

Upskilling the Sir Humphreys

By Michael Burton | 13 March 2013

Michael Burton reports on a debate hosted last week by Penna which he chaired, on the impact of l...

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Service Manager - Corporate Governance Services (Deputy Monitoring Officer)

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South Yorkshire Pensions Authority

Director of Corporate Services

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