CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Directors criticise 'unreasonable' in-year grant cut

By Dan Peters | 17 September 2015

Children’s services directors have labelled proposals to slash the youth justice grant by a furth...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Slough BC cabinet approves contract to relinquish control over children's services

By Tom Bridge | 16 September 2015

Slough BC’s cabinet has signed off on a contract that will see its children’s services taken over...

FINANCE

PM criticised over transformation message

By Dan Peters | 16 September 2015

Private companies will not solve a crisis in children’s social care, prime minister David Cameron...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Roberts hired by St Helens

10 September 2015

St Helens MBC has appointed Ian Roberts as deputy chief executive and director of finance.

FINANCE

Rotherham's future progress 'not in doubt'

By Dan Peters | 09 September 2015

Change at Rotherham MBC is ‘not yet embedded but future progress is not in doubt,’ lead commissio...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Calls for policy shift over school local authority control

By Mark Whitehead | 03 September 2015

Councils must be given urgent new powers to control the intake of academies and free schools, loc...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ofsted slammed over judgements

By Dan Peters | 03 September 2015

A social work professor has accused Ofsted of ‘undermining and destabilising’ children’s services...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Council invests £600k to improve children's services

By Mark Whitehead | 01 September 2015

West Berkshire Council is investing £600,000 in new staff and extra training as part of a plan to...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

One Year From Jay: Rotherham could 'win back powers in 2017'

By Dan Peters | 25 August 2015

The head of the intervention team sent in to turn around Rotherham MBC hopes to hand back ‘some o...

FINANCE

Provision must be local

By Adam Fineberg | 18 August 2015

Adam Fineberg argues the case for local authorities being the chief source of local public expend...

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frederica-diamanta

Assistant Director, Legal and Information Governance

DG7 £ 65,385 to £70,030

Sheffield City Council is a council that leads boldly with purpose and decisiveness Apply for this job

Sheffield City Council

Category Manager - Place

Management Grade B - £62,025 - £63,735 per annum

We are Merton United, One Borough one Team at an exciting point in our journey. Apply for this job

London Borough of Merton

Head of Legal & Democratic Services

Up to £90,418 plus Statutory Duties Allowance £7,500 per annum

Do you want to work in a strategic leadership position within a genuinely collaborative senior team? Apply for this job

Surrey Heath Borough Council