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Business rates U-turn warning
FINANCE

Business rates U-turn warning

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2026

A retreat over changes to business rates could impact on the Local Government Finance Settlement, councils have been warned.

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

It's time to break the pattern of reliance on pilot schemes

By Annabel Smith | 09 December 2025

Annabel Smith urges the Government to move beyond the cycle of pilot schemes and adopt a more mis...

FINANCE

Budget: The effects on combined and strategic authorities

By Tiffany Cloynes | 05 December 2025

Tiffany Cloynes looks at at the financial implications of the Budget for combined authorities and...

FINANCE

Don't let lack of cash fail Total Place 2.0

By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2025

Reeves was never going to magic up a solution to public sector funding woes in the Budget, 'but t...

BUDGET 2025

Rachel Reeves: The Queen of fiscal drag

By Mike Emmerich | 28 November 2025

The chancellor may have done respectably on putting the public finances on a more secure long-ter...

BUDGET 2025

Budget: Government to fund SEND

By Heather Jameson | 26 November 2025

Government will fully fund Special Educational Needs and Disabilities from 2028-29, cutting one o...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed lobbies Treasury over fiscal devolution

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2025

Local government secretary Steve Reed has made the case to the Treasury for devolving fiscal powe...

FINANCE

Predictions of low take up for retention pooling scheme

By Joe Lepper | 16 October 2025

Take up of a government invitation to councils to join the business rates retention pooling schem...

FINANCE

Districts sound fair funding alarm

By Martin Ford | 21 July 2025

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has joined inner London boroughs in sounding the alarm over ...

FINANCE

Grant funding's phase-in

By Ann McGauran | 02 July 2025

The fair funding review 2.0 has landed, but will it put the whole of a beleaguered sector onto a ...

FINANCE

Rates reset could force 'deep cuts'

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2025

Local authorities will be forced to make ‘deep cuts to important services’ if the Government push...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Pensions

£84,421 to £93,565 plus benefits and relocation support

Premium jobWelcome and thank you for your interest in leading Hertfordshire Pension Fund as our next Head of Pensions Apply for this job

Hertfordshire County Council

Assistant Director - Resources - South Yorkshire Pensions Authority

£93,559 to £102,865 plus benefits and relocation support

We are looking forward to recruiting a new Assistant Director - Resources who will further develop our thinking and help us realise our ambitions. Apply for this job

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Up to £97,974 per annum

We’ll give you the opportunity to be our spatial storyteller, weaving together narratives of land, people, history and future. Apply for this job

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