WELFARE

People need help right now

By Marvin Rees | 01 March 2023

Bristol’s culture of collaboration fostered through its One City approach has enabled the city to...

FINANCE

How social investment is growing its support

By Stephen Muers | 01 March 2023

Chief executive of Big Society Capital Stephen Muers outlines how forgotten funds can assist wit...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

Our communities know district councils are delivering

By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 28 February 2023

Independent analysis commissioned ahead of the District Councils’ Network conference is a vindica...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Top-down asylum plans are a catastrophe in waiting

By Heather Jameson | 21 February 2023

Barely a week goes by without a council discovering a Home Office plan to relocate asylum seekers...

DEVOLUTION

We still have a desperate need for local growth

By Jackie Sadek | 21 February 2023

Jackie Sadek says the real way to supercharge the economy is to give powers back to local communi...

WHITEHALL

Call for 'real action' as Government sidelines parks group

By Dan Peters | 20 February 2023

A member of the Government’s sidelined parks action group (PAG) has called for ‘real action’ afte...

WALES

Labour proposes new anti-social behaviour powers for councils

By Dan Peters | 17 February 2023

Councils would be able to force offenders in England and Wales to remove graffiti or rubbish unde...

HEALTH

Inequalities hitting life expectancy, report finds

By Paul Marinko | 16 February 2023

Socio-economic inequalities are wiping an average of 1.5 years off the lives of people in the mos...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Local government in the Land of the Long White Cloud

By Alex Parmley | 15 February 2023

Alex Parmley offers a leadership perspective from a district council in New Zealand, where local ...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Warsi rails against Government's Prevent overhaul

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2023

Ex-communities minister Baroness Warsi has attacked the Government’s proposed reform of Prevent, ...

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frederica-diamanta

Chief Digital and Information Officer

£88,679 to £103,255

Now is a great time to look at joining Reading. Apply for this job

Reading Borough Council

Executive Director, Operations

£97,601 per annum

Ashfield is thriving. We are proud of our district and our ambition is to be ‘great’ across all our services. Apply for this job

Ashfield District Council

Assistant Director Legal, Governance and Coroners (Monitoring Officer)

£91,230-£102,921

Rochdale Borough Council is looking for a pioneering, passionate and proud Assistant Director of Legal, Governance and Coroners (Monitoring Officer). Apply for this job

Rochdale BC