PAY

First city director hired on £35k less than chief executive

By Dan Peters | 01 April 2016

Stoke-on-Trent has appointed David Sidaway as its first ever city director.

BUSINESS

Councils to make legal team mergers

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016

Kent CC has agreed to create a company for its legal services department as four other councils a...

BUSINESS

Brexit is 'bad news for building'

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has warned that Brexit would be catastrophic to the UK’s housing m...

FINANCE

Cuts force Highland Council to 'completely redesign priorities'

By Thomas Bridge | 01 April 2016

Highland Council will begin a ‘complete redesign’ imminently after ‘significant’ cuts to staff nu...

MANAGEMENT

White Van Man on . . . combined authorities

01 April 2016

I thought they were used by farmers but apparently these ones aren’t called combine harvesters bu...

FINANCE

Councils calculate cost of floods at £250m

By Mark Whitehead | 01 April 2016

The cost of damage caused by floods over the winter has reached nearly £250m and is still rising,...

BUSINESS

Wigan – the next Power

01 April 2016

Last week it was revealed that a satellite super computer called Hyperbrain has been orbiting aro...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Authorities 'must take blame' for missing looked-after kids

By Thomas Bridge | 01 April 2016

Councils must be ‘held to account’ for widespread failures in support for missing looked-after ch...

Authorities to share support services

By Mark Whitehead | 01 April 2016

Councils in Lincolnshire and Sussex are the latest to announce moves to share support services.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Parsonage hired after 'rigorous' recruitment process

01 April 2016

Susan Parsonage has been confirmed as the new chief executive of Lancaster City Council.