FINANCE

Running with the risks

By Aidan Rave | 26 January 2015

Local government must be both bold in its innovative thinking, but also pragmatic about the chall...

FINANCE

Reclaiming the social care workforce

By Gillian Quinton | 26 January 2015

The growing trend for social workers to leave stable, local government employment and move into a...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Council in bid to renew Capita outsourcing deal

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 January 2015

Blackburn with Darwen Council has announced it wants to renegotiate its partnership with outsourc...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Tackling CSE needs more 'statutory teeth'

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Chief executives have been urged to provide challenge as well as support to their council’s effor...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

'Still much to do' after Ofsted report

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

The new children’s services director at Manchester City Council has admitted there is still a lot...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Lack of DCSs hits directors' roles

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

A call to fight for the director of children’s services role amid an increasing trend towards cre...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA demands changes to Ofsted's 'blinkered' inspection regime

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Councils in England and Wales have called for an overhaul in the way children’s services are insp...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Trade unions warn of funding crisis

By Jamie Hailstone | 16 January 2015

Council services in England are under threat from a growing funding crisis, trade union leaders h...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Je suis un intermédiaire

By Michael Burton | 14 January 2015

I hadn’t realised it was such a quiet news day what with 1m copies of Charlie Hebdo hitting the s...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...

frederica-diamanta

Senior Procurement Manager (Senior Commercial Manager): Northallerton

£56,433 - £64,951 per annum

We are seeking a driven and dynamic Senior Commercial Manager to join our senior management team at North Yorkshire Council. Apply for this job

North Yorkshire Council

Corporate Director of Regeneration, Economy and Growth

£166,434

One of the biggest unitary councils in the country, and the largest economy in the North-East... Apply for this job

Durham County Council

Chief Executive

£206,492 – £218,002

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Apply for this job

Barnet London Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Senior Procurement Manager (Senior Commercial Manager): Northallerton

£56,433 - £64,951 per annum

We are seeking a driven and dynamic Senior Commercial Manager to join our senior management team at North Yorkshire Council. Apply for this job

North Yorkshire Council

Corporate Director of Regeneration, Economy and Growth

£166,434

One of the biggest unitary councils in the country, and the largest economy in the North-East... Apply for this job

Durham County Council

Chief Executive

£206,492 – £218,002

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Apply for this job

Barnet London Borough Council