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The new workforce: delivering services post-COVID

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2022

Senior public sector officers discussed the challenges of recruitment and retention at a time of ...

Josephs apologises again for lockdown prosecco party

By Paul Marinko | 26 May 2022

Sheffield City Council chief executive Kate Josephs has reiterated her apology after details of h...

Government to strengthen community role in planning

By Paul Marinko | 23 May 2022

The Government has made clear it intends to strengthen the role of communities in new planning le...

Future Forum: Go hyper-local to avoid 'grim' future

By Paul Marinko | 13 May 2022

The Government needs to provide county deals quickly and councils need to simultaneously ‘go hype...

Assessing Prevent

By Paul Marinko | 04 May 2022

The voices of Prevent’s detractors have become louder. But, for those with experience of the init...

Fresh LGA call after 'bed blocking' doubles

By Paul Marinko | 20 April 2022

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for ‘urgent action’ to support social care afte...

Sacked director to face no further action from police

By Paul Marinko | 19 April 2022

A South Somerset DC director sacked after allegedly using furloughed council staff to work on her...

Town halls must find more cash for wages

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Paul Marinko | 06 April 2022

Councils have been warned they will have to find more in their budgets to fund the sector’s incre...

Council leader bemoans lack of diversity in interim market

By Paul Marinko | 04 April 2022

The leader of crisis-hit Slough BC has said the interim market is made up of ‘pale stale males’ a...

Extra steps taken to prevent poll fraud in Tower Hamlets

By Paul Marinko | 04 April 2022

The chief executive of the Electoral Commission has revealed that extra steps have been taken to ...