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PROCUREMENT
Taking back control
By Emily Twinch | 27 August 2025
As the Government commits to insourcing as the best option for public services, Emily Twinch talk...
HOUSING
On the long road to better social housing
By Martin Ford | 18 August 2025
Martin Ford examines the task at hand for local authorities as the RSH inspections uncover a sign...
DEVOLUTION
Platforms for change
By Max Wide | 14 August 2025
Now should be the time to reflect, learn and proceed with insight and refreshed practices if the ...
DEVOLUTION
Cornwall charts its own devo course
By Heather Jameson | 13 August 2025
Cornwall Council resisted the conventional route to devolution, striking its own deal without a m...
DEVOLUTION
Devon and Torbay: short on time but long on ambition
By Heather Jameson | 13 August 2025
It may be the newest devolution deal, but Devon and Torbay County Combined Authority’s future is ...
COHESION
Can Britain's cohesion drive stop the next riot?
By Paul Marinko | 13 August 2025
The Government’s cohesion taskforce promises a fresh approach to healing divisions – but councils...
FINANCE
Shifting the presssure
By Martin Ford | 07 August 2025
With consultation set to close on the fair funding review, Martin Ford looks at the challenges fa...
LEGISLATION
Taking a delve into devo
By Tiffany Cloynes | 06 August 2025
Tiffany Cloynes offers a whirlwind tour of the key features of the English Devolution and Communi...
FINANCE
Central government must ease its grip
By Florence Eshalomi | 23 July 2025
Councils must have more power to control their own affairs - accountable not to Westminster in th...
PAY
Hitting the strike button
By David Blackman | 16 July 2025
The three main local government unions have all rejected the employers’ pay offer. How strong is ...
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Executive Director of Environment and Place
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An ambitious and visible leader, you will increase green flags for our parks and open spaces Apply for this job
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You will lead multidisciplinary teams covering economic growth and place, local government finance, workforce, Apply for this job
- Defining the 2030 council comms leadership challenge
- EXCLUSIVE: Councils call for more regulation amid facial recognition rollout
- Burnham 'growth in every postcode' ambition dismissed
- Scots council map to be torn up
- Disciplinary investigations: Tackling a hidden public health issue inside our workplaces
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