Communities

By John Tizard | 21 April 2020

John Tizard argues that during this emergency the sector has stepped up – and the COVID-19 crisis...

Rewarding our invisible frontline workers

By Claire Fox | 21 April 2020

Claire Fox says we can reflect on what kind of a changed world we want to inhabit after the pande...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

Supporting the fight against Covid-19 with community hub software

By Peter O'Hara | 20 April 2020

OLM has developed software - free to councils until the end of September - that acts as an onlin...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

Collective Crisis Intelligence

By Peter Baeck | 20 April 2020

Peter Baeck looks at how local authorities can best harness collective crisis intelligence to gat...

WHITEHALL

Call for lifting of immigration rules

By Dan Peters | 20 April 2020

Council leaders in England, Scotland and Wales have called for a temporary lifting of the immigra...

THIRD SECTOR

We have an opportunity to re-boot and take stock

By Gill Kneller | 15 April 2020

Local authorities have by necessity become far more introspective than ever before as they've bee...

LOCALIS

Brighten all corners

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2020

Better, more consistent and accountable use of the Social Value Act could give communities the be...

LOCALIS

Four key ideas for social value creation

By Karl Limbert | 15 April 2020

Karl Limbert sets out four key ideas for social value creation and says it’s time to nuture and g...

FINANCE

Call for extra counter-extremism funding

By Dan Peters | 15 April 2020

Councils have called for further funding for a network that shares experiences and good practice ...

FINANCE

Creating a long-term new normal

By Adam Cunnington | 09 April 2020

Adam Cunnington says we should agree to harness our collective experience of the devastating effe...

Assistant Director Democracy, Information and Elections

£78,000 - £84,000

Reporting to the General Counsel, you will be a Deputy Monitoring Officer who will lead and develop democratic services... Apply for this job

Sheffield City Council

Social Care Assessment & Reablement Manager (STAR)

Band I, SCP 44 - 47 (£53,885 - £57,195) per annum

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality reablement and support for service users to live independently? Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Strategic Director Finance (deputy s.151)

£113,431 to £125,279

We’ve made a promising start, with the Commissioners’ report last summer recognising our substantial progress. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council