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CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Spinning plates to balance budgets

By Tracie Langley | 24 November 2021

How do we reduce budgets that have been baked into service provision forever to pay for a step ch...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Boosting children's chances

23 November 2021

Chair of the independent review of children’s social care Josh MacAlister speaks to Ann McGauran ...

PLANNING

Councils promised tax overhaul

By Martin Ford | 23 November 2021

Reform of council tax, including devolved powers for local authorities, are among the plans in a ...

WHITEHALL

CCN conference: Senior officer in financial collapse warning

By Heather Jameson | 23 November 2021

The countdown is on before some councils face financial collapse due to a change to children’s se...

FINANCE

LGA warning over soaring care costs

By Mark Conrad | 23 November 2021

Soaring adult and children’s care costs mean councils could ‘soon fail to support everyone they n...

THIRD SECTOR

Councils warned after harrowing child protection case

By Mark Conrad | 22 November 2021

Councils must better assess risks to vulnerable children posed by new adults entering family home...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

CCN conference: MacAlister moots national children's care service

By Heather Jameson | 22 November 2021

Some parts of children’s social services may be better provided at a national level, the chair of...

FINANCE

Peers call for reversal of children's services cuts

By Martin Ford | 18 November 2021

A decline in funding for child protection has disproportionately affected the most deprived areas...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Why not put schools at the heart of place-wide net-zero Carbon transition?

18 November 2021

EQUANS is working with schools, councils, and Multi-Academy Trusts to benchmark their current ene...

OFSTED

Slough accepts damning SEND report

By Martin Ford | 17 November 2021

Watchdogs have demanded action from Slough Council to address ‘significant areas of weakness’ in ...

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frederica-diamanta

Executive Director – Community Health, Wellbeing & Prevention (DASS)

£160,000

Southampton is a bold, diverse and fast-changing city. Apply for this job

Southampton City Council

Principal Lawyer - Contracts and Commercial

£54,495 - £56,494 + Market Rate Supplement of £3000

Do you want to make a difference to local people? Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Practice Supervisor - Integrated Front Door

From £50,269 to £63,837

Are you an effective and decisive leader? Apply for this job

North East Lincolnshire Council