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FINANCE
Districts should be rewarded for growing housing
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 04 August 2025
Districts that have proportionately grown their housing by two-thirds more than average councils ...
DEVOLUTION
From duty to delivery
By Annabel Smith | 01 August 2025
Annabel Smith sets out how to effectively embed place-led collaboration.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A missed opportunity?
By Dawn Redpath | 31 July 2025
The Government must look beyond its heartlands in its efforts to drive growth, says Dawn Redpath.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growing towards health
By Sharlene McGee | 31 July 2025
New devolution powers and local growth plans should lay the ground for health in all policies, no...
COVID INQUIRY
Five years on services are not ready for a Covid re-run
By Heather Jameson | 31 July 2025
Giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry this week, LGA chief Joanna Killian highlighted just how lit...
TRANSFORMATION
The Vale's bright future
By Rob Thomas | 31 July 2025
Vale of Glamorgan Council’s new strategic plan offers a destination and a transformational route ...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Knitting places together again
By Professor Donna Hall | 31 July 2025
The place-based approach is ready for the mainstream – so it’s important that the system around i...
HOUSING
Create a strategic planning system that is long-term and consistent
By Simon Edwards | 31 July 2025
Allowing mayors the ability to rewrite spatial development strategies prepared by councils runs o...
LG CHALLENGE
Shaping future leaders
By Annette Aiken | 31 July 2025
Local government’s brightest and best talent was on show during the last two Local Government Cha...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Climate action is a social movement
By Cllr Nick Ireland | 30 July 2025
Climate action is seen by Dorset Council as a way to improve lives, says Cllr Nick Ireland.
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner
£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent
You will be expected and enabled to contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing. Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Operational Maintenance)
Special A, SCP 42-45, £53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobThis is an exciting time to join Calderdale’s Highways Maintenance service. Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£109,483 to £122,620
This is a rare and career-defining opportunity to shape the future of public health Apply for this job
- Former local government minister Phil Woolas dies
- Wirral management overhaul to create executive director roles
- Recruitment challenges restricting pace of Sandwell improvement, peers find
- LGA to recruit interim chief
- Whitehall thinks its expenditure should be subject to less scrutiny than the local state
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