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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Unprecedented interest in council's fostering offer
By Julie Kelly | 28 October 2024
Hillingdon LBC’s new payment and benefits package for foster carers, the most competitive of its ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
NAO: Councils face bankruptcy due to SEND deficits
By William Eichler | 24 October 2024
Two-fifths of local authorities will face the threat of bankruptcy if more is not done to tackle ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS
By Emily Twinch | 23 October 2024
Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% ...
POLITICS
Labour intervenes at Tameside
By Martin Ford | 11 October 2024
The leader of Tameside MBC has resigned after Labour took steps to directly intervene over ‘unacc...
WALES
Welsh councils facing £559m budget pressure
By Paul Marinko | 11 October 2024
Welsh councils face budget pressures of around £559m next year, the sector’s umbrella organisatio...
PEOPLE
Chief executive's resignation 'welcomed' by MPs
By Martin Ford | 10 October 2024
Chief executive of Tameside MBC, Sandra Stewart, has announced she is to stand down following a w...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...
SOCIAL CARE
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
BUSINESS
Contract agreed for Lincolnshire children's home build
By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024
Willmott Dixon has signed a multi-million-pound contract to build a 28-bed secure children’s home...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Charity warns council not to charge parents for taking children into care
By Emily Twinch | 23 September 2024
A charity has called on a council not to charge for children taken into care because it could det...
Area Programme Director
c. £130k
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Unitary Programme Director (Mid Hampshire)
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Area Programme Director
c. £130k
You will work closely with our Senior Responsible Officer and his deputies to develop a robust and achievable transition plan. Apply for this job
Unitary Programme Director (Mid Hampshire)
£120k
Across Hampshire, four new unitary councils are being created and this role will work within the wider programme Apply for this job
Deputy Social Care Manager
£52,413 - £54,495 per annum
Are you looking for your next step in your Social Work management career? Apply for this job
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