HEALTH

RSP fails to reflect 40% cut in grants say councils

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Town halls have attacked the Government’s revenue spending power (RSP) calculation for failing to...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils serious about forming CA

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 January 2015

Thurrock Council and Southend-on-Sea BC have become the latest councils to openly talk about form...

FINANCE

Watchdogs attack Miliband's 'missing votes scandal claims'

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2015

Voting watchdogs have rejected claims made by Labour Party leader Ed Miliband that up to a millio...

SOCIAL CARE

No improvement over NHS delayed discharges

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2015

Care minister Norman Lamb has admitted the number of days lost in the NHS to delayed discharges c...

FINANCE

Specialists' numbers to double to aid chaotic households

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2015

The number of welfare-to-work specialists seconded to the coalition’s flagship troubled families ...

FINANCE

'Don't write off poll tax debts' authorities warned

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2015

Local authority chiefs have warned that Scottish Government plans to write-off ‘poll tax’ debts c...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Lack of DCSs hits directors' roles

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

A call to fight for the director of children’s services role amid an increasing trend towards cre...

WHITEHALL

Big Society has failed, experts report

By Jonathan Werran | 20 January 2015

The Coalition’s Big Society project has failed on its own terms amid a continued reduction in civ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Calls for chief exec to resign after safety breach at town hall

By Heather Jameson | 20 January 2015

A local union branch office has called for the chief executive of Waltham Forest Council to resig...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA demands changes to Ofsted's 'blinkered' inspection regime

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Councils in England and Wales have called for an overhaul in the way children’s services are insp...

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Director – Housing Services

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Redbridge London Borough Council

Executive Director – Place, Communities and Enterprise

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Redbridge London Borough Council

Director of Quality, Partnerships and Commissioning (Children and Families)

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The role will lead on arrangements for statutory Apply for this job

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