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LOCAL DEMOCRACY

EXCLUSIVE: Lib Dems raise reorganisation concerns

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2020

Lib Dem council leaders have raised ‘serious concerns’ with local government secretary Robert Jen...

FINANCE

Retail chiefs call for more rate relief as Sunak considers tax hikes

By Michael Burton | 01 September 2020

Retail chiefs have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend business rate relief just as he plans t...

WHITEHALL

Row over lockdown easing

By Martin Ford | 01 September 2020

Political tensions have risen over the lifting of local lockdown restrictions in Greater Manchester.

HEALTH

Government late to involve councils in coronavirus testing, report finds

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2020

Central government was late to consider how councils could help ramp up coronavirus testing in th...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

DCN: Bigger local government is 'not better or cheaper'

By Ann McGauran | 01 September 2020

Proposals for county unitary councils would be 122 times larger than the average council in Germa...

SOCIAL CARE

Think tank proposes pension-style social care system

By Laura Sharman | 01 September 2020

A pension-style model is the most effective way of fixing the social care crisis, a new report fr...

LEGAL

Tribunal rules foster care workers entitled to employee rights

By William Eichler | 01 September 2020

A UK tribunal has ruled that foster care workers are council employees and therefore entitled to ...

WHITEHALL

Migrant children transfer scheme could be mandatory

By Martin Ford | 28 August 2020

The Government is consulting on making the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seek...

HEALTH

Regulators refusing to make care home deaths public

By Ann McGauran | 28 August 2020

Regulators are keeping the COVID-19 death tolls at individual care homes secret in part to protec...

FINANCE

Negrini steps down from Croydon

By Heather Jameson | 28 August 2020

Crisis-hit Croydon LBC has announced the departure of chief executive Jo Negrini.

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Developer

£50793 - £59756 per annum

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Essex County Council

Head of Housing and Communities / Pennaeth Tai a Chymunedau

£99,947 - £102,952

At Denbighshire County Council, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved—and even more excited about what’s ahead. Apply for this job

Denbighshire County Council

SEND Improvement Service Manager

£69,037.00, Grade 15

This is a broad and high-impact role spanning several key statutory and strategic services across education and inclusion. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council