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FINANCE
DCLG admits blame for 'broken' appeals system
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
A senior civil servant has admitted his department is to blame for the ‘broken’ business rates ap...
FINANCE
Porter: Rates retention will end in tears
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
The move to 100% business rates retention will ‘end in tears,’ the chairman of the Local Governme...
FINANCE
'Long-term national solution' still needed to solve social care crisis
By Dan Peters | 15 December 2016
The sector and experts have argued that the announcement that an extra £900m will be made availab...
FINANCE
A bumpy ride for the sector
By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2016
From Bowie to Brexit and bed-blocking, 2016 has been a rollercoaster year. Heather Jameson skips ...
FINANCE
Goodbye 2016 and hello to another turbulent year
By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2016
Heather Jameson looks back on one difficult year for local government and forward to another.
HEALTH
'Whitehall's failure to end trusts' charity claims wastes cash and harms health'
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Ministers’ failure to end a long-running legal dispute between NHS trusts and councils is wasting...
WHITEHALL
Councils upbeat about defeating trusts' demands for rates relief
By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016
Councils are quietly confident of defeating NHS trusts’ claim for mandatory business rates relief...
FINANCE
100% rates retention branded 'irrelevant'
By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016
Returning business rates to the sector is ‘irrelevant,’ two members of the Layfield Commission on...
WHITEHALL
DCLG rates rethink leaves LEPs in limbo
By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016
The Government could row back from plans to give business members on local enterprise partnership...
FINANCE
Future Forum North: 'Devolution deals may not be for whole country'
By Dan Peters | 03 December 2016
Local Government Association chief executive Mark Lloyd has publicly accepted for the first time ...
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Assistant Director for Estate Strategy and Development
£71,202 - £77,495 per annum
Premium jobWe are seeking an ambitious and strategic leader to join our senior management team as Assistant Director for Estate Strategy & Development. Apply for this job
Assistant Director Housing
£111,533 to £119,774 plus relocation support
Housing is one of the most high profile and closely scrutinised areas in local government Apply for this job
Strategic Head of Finance and S151 Officer
Package up to £109,592
As the Section 151 Officer, you will play a key role in supporting the Council through its wider journey.. Apply for this job
- All change: Reform UK projected to make huge gains as local elections get underway
- Local government: An age of electoral insecurity has started
- Labour election losses mount amid Reform surge
- CIPFA postpones members' merger vote
- Reform pledges to proritise Green councils for immigration detention centres
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