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Combined authority announces interim chief
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has appointed Gordon Mitchell as its interim CEO.
Slough to overhaul finance team
Slough Council is to restructure its finance department in a bid to turn around its fortunes.
Scottish council chief to step down after 18 months
Netta Meadows will leave Scottish Borders Council in September.
International approaches to addressing NEETs
The UK’s NEET (not in education, employment or training) rate of 14% has changed very little in 20 years while Germany’s rate fell from 17% to 9%. Anna Round compares international systems.
Unitary chief to stand down
Reading Council's chief executive Peter Sloman has announced he is leaving his post.
Cutting 91,000 civil servants: ‘Efficiency’ at what cost?
Against a backdrop of unprecedented strain, it is difficult to see how a radical reduction in civil service numbers will increase efficiency or improve the quality of public services, says Lucy Woods.
Social care reforms to cost £26bn
New research has found social care reform costs will exceed Government estimates by £10bn but ministers have rebuffed calls for more funding.
Sharing a passion for supported internships
Edwina Grant shares her experience of supporting young people with autism and learning disabilities at Lancashire CC, and her belief in the importance of other councils and companies getting involved with the transition to work programme.
Local Government Research Centre under threat from job losses
The future of the Local Government Research Centre (LGRC) is under threat following the announcement of jobs restructuring and redundancies at De Montfort University (DMU).
Devolve powers to tackle jobs crisis, council leaders urge
Local authority leaders have called on the Government to devolve more powers to councils to free them up to tackle the growing jobs crisis.
Future Forum: Sector must take lead on diversity
Councils should ‘think outside the box’ when recruiting to senior positions, The MJ’s Future Forum has heard.
Green jobs are the route to shared prosperity
Groundwork’s Growing Green Careers report sets out a number of principles designed to address both worklessness and environmental injustice, writes Graham Duxbury.
Closing the digital skills gap
Simon Collinson looks at how to widen the talent pool and bridge the digital skills gap in the UK public sector.
Finding talent to fulfil your green ambitions
The sector has been leading the charge in promoting the climate agenda with a host of green initiatives, but none of this will work if the right people are not in place to implement them.
Pension pool chief announces departure
Mike O’Donnell has held the role at the London Collective Investment Vehicle for the last three years.
London’s continuing uncertainty over UKSPF
Cllr Nesil Caliskhan says London boroughs waited in vain for an update in the spring statement on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and concerns remain that the capital will lose out.
Future Forum North: Investment in skills ‘comes without guarantees’
Investment in improving skills and qualifications ‘comes without guarantees’ that workers will stay local rather than move away once qualified, a council chief told Future Forum North.
Council demands assurances following P&O sackings
Thurrock BC’s cabinet held an emergency meeting at the weekend after 800 ferry workers lost their jobs.
No green shoots from the Spring Statement
Sarah Longlands says that Westminster may be retreating to a pre-COVID state of policy inertia on the cost of living crisis, but there is no reason why local government should follow.
London chief switches boroughs
Newham LBC chief executive Althea Loderick has been named as the new chief of Southwark LBC.