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SOLACE: Investment key to financial resilience

SOLACE: Investment key to financial resilience

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025

The case was made for achieving financial resilience through investment and regeneration at the S...

PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'

17 October 2025

MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...

New strategic authorities should 'embrace' disagreement

By Paul Marinko | 17 October 2025

Areas moving towards devolution deals have been advised to ‘embrace’ inevitable disagreement betw...

SOLACE: Reorganisation work must start now

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025

Councils have been urged to begin to ‘boring but practical' work on Local Government Reorganisati...

Kerswell hands in resignation

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025

Croydon LBC chief executive Katherine Kerswell has handed in her resignation five years after joi...

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Corporate Director – Adults & Health

£176,061 – £196,002

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Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

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Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

up to £137,831

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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director – Adults & Health

£176,061 – £196,002

Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job

Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

£89,116 - £104,843 per annum

Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

up to £137,831

Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

How productive is local government – and are there any savings left?

'As the sector awaits the launch of the Local Government Outcomes Framework, how ready is local government to understand and drive productivity? There is good and bad news, says Jeremy Cooper.'

15 October 2025
DCN is 'punching above its weight'

DCN is 'punching above its weight'

'As Sam Chapman-Allen’s tenure as chair of the District Councils’ Network (DCN) comes to an end, he talks to Martin Ford about his time in the hotseat'

By Martin Ford | 08 October 2025
Bringing Birmingham back from the brink

Bringing Birmingham back from the brink

16 October 2025

Rishi Shori sets out Birmingham City Council’s history of intervention and the three ingredients ...

Avoiding enclaves for the affluent

By Darren Rodwell | 15 October 2025

The Government is to set up a New Towns Unit. Darren Rodwell says unlocking the potential of new ...

Investing in potential

By Julie Young | 07 October 2025

Julie Young looks at the impact and value of Somerset’s supported internships.

Reorganisation financial risk warning

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025

Local government reorganisation has been highlighted as a key concern by the Public Accounts Comm...

SOLACE: Reorganisation work must start now

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025

Councils have been urged to begin to ‘boring but practical' work on Local Government Reorganisati...

Why is Devon doing LGR?

By Cllr Paul Arnott | 17 October 2025

Cllr Paul Arnott says that if Devon is not going to achieve Mayoral status before 2029, why is it...

Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets

By Ann McGauran | 16 October 2025

The impact of reorganisation and the fair funding review will ‘throw all the cards up in the air’...