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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Citizen engagement: a new paradigm for local government

By Jason Lowther | 01 July 2025

Citizen engagement is sometimes treated as something at the margins of decision-making, but a new...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Turning ambition into action: Delivering the Industrial Strategy

By Jason Longhurst | 01 July 2025

Responding to the recent publication of the Industrial Strategy, Jason Longhurst says policy chan...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Creating work, the local way

By Jonathan Werran | 01 July 2025

A new research programme shows how devolution can improve employment services by moving decision-...

PLACE-MAKING

Place is dead, long live Place!

By Stephen Moir | 30 June 2025

It’s time to embrace the opportunity of reform to really put place to the forefront of all that w...

DEVOLUTION

The new health duty on strategic authorities: getting it right

By Tom Lloyd Goodwin | 27 June 2025

If designed and implemented effectively, the new health duty on strategic authorities could play ...

DEVOLUTION

Smart spending, strong regions

By Jeff Matsu | 27 June 2025

The Spending Review has set ambitious goals for the UK, but achieving them depends on embracing l...

ENERGY

Clean, electric heat is a matter of security as well as sustainability

By Ravi Gurumurthy | 27 June 2025

As geopolitical instability drives up energy prices, now is the moment to remind people: decarbon...

LGA CONFERENCE

How to make leadership radical, capable and agile

By Kim Wright | 27 June 2025

With the LGA Conference on 1-3 July imminent, Kim Wright – who will speak at the event – says inv...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

The power of the dream

By Jon Rouse | 27 June 2025

Jon Rouse says that rather than being a bureaucratic exercise, reorganisation is about complete r...

HOUSING

The council won't be cowed by scaremongering

By Sheila Oxtoby | 27 June 2025

Great Yarmouth BC is focused on proposals for a new selective licensing scheme to tackle sub stan...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Democratic Services, Elections & Monitoring Officer

Grade 12 £67,236 – £71,223 plus £3000pa Statutory Officer Allowance

Premium jobWe are looking for an accomplished and proactive leader for our vacant post of Head of Democratic Services & Elections Apply for this job

Harborough District Council

Chief Executive

£188,227

Join us on our journey Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council

Director, Local Government Reform and Devolution

Up to £150,612pa

Shape the Future of Essex Apply for this job

Essex County Council