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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
A 'no magic bullet' plan for improving young people's lives
By Jonathan Rallings | 12 November 2024
Last year councils overspent more on children’s services than on any other area. Dominic Luscombe...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Young people 'biggest losers' from current children's services system, say councils
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2024
Thousands of youngsters were placed in council care more than 20 miles away from their home last ...
PREVENTION
Public services must welcome partnership and prevention
By Emmet Regan | 06 November 2024
Social care is pointing the way towards the use of working in partnership to deliver public servi...
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...
Assistant Director of Family Services & Strategic Partnerships
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Assistant Director – Education, SEND and Inclusion
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Director of Public Health
£123,000 - £139,000 plus up to £10,000 relocation expenses
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- Professional body for monitoring officers to be launched this month
- Reform UK-led council proposes shifting staff of new unitary to 'standard' 37-hour week
- EXCLUSIVE: Recent appointments dominate top tier cohort
- The new leader of the County Councils' Network sets out his vision
- Derbyshire CC backs single county unitary
Assistant Director of Family Services & Strategic Partnerships
£97,632 - £108,033
Creating Brighter Futures – Where Leadership Sparks Magic Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Education, SEND and Inclusion
£97,632 - £108,033
Creating Brighter Futures – Where Leadership Sparks Magic Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£123,000 - £139,000 plus up to £10,000 relocation expenses
Your opportunity to make a huge impact. Apply for this job
- Professional body for monitoring officers to be launched this month
- Reform UK-led council proposes shifting staff of new unitary to 'standard' 37-hour week
- EXCLUSIVE: Recent appointments dominate top tier cohort
- The new leader of the County Councils' Network sets out his vision
- Derbyshire CC backs single county unitary
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