CHILDREN'S SERVICES

The next step for children's services

By Dominic Luscombe | 08 January 2024

Dominic Luscombe asks if the new Data Strategy and Children’s Social Care reform strategy are opp...

FINANCE

Call for MPs' help over 'inadequate' settlement

By Martin Ford | 18 December 2023

Councils are to turn to MPs to make the case to the Government following the announcement of an ‘...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Devo and Christmas ghosts of past, present and future

By Alun Hughes | 14 December 2023

Alun Hughes spins a Christmas story about devolution, with Greg Clark as the ghost of Christmas p...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

No Christmas cheer from Gove the Grinch

By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2023

In a year that Michael Gove handed £1.9bn in departmental underspends back to the Treasury, and t...

FINANCE

One in five councils 'likely' to issue section 114

By Martin Ford | 06 December 2023

Almost one in five councils believe bankruptcy is likely within two years, while doubt hangs over...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Using data to make better decisions for our children

By Debbie Barnes | 04 December 2023

Dominic Luscombe and Debbie Barnes look at how an approach to capturing and tracking children’s n...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Public services out in the cold

By Michael Burton | 27 November 2023

There was little joy for under-pressure public sector budgets including local government from las...

FINANCE

Sector unites in plea to chancellor

By Martin Ford | 22 November 2023

The local government sector in England has put out a call to Jeremy Hunt to ‘address the signific...

WHITEHALL

Devo's the word – so what comes next?

By Heather Jameson | 21 November 2023

Michael Gove’s appearance at the County Councils’ Network conference this week may have been ill-...

FINANCE

Gove hints at Autumn Statement gifts

By Heather Jameson | 21 November 2023

Levelling up secretary Michael Gove hinted Christmas may come early for councils when Jeremy Hunt...

frederica-diamanta

Policy, Parliamentary & Public Affairs Manager

£66,909 - £75,492 pro rata

Premium jobRCN Wales HQ, Cardiff with hybrid working, permanent Apply for this job

Royal College of Nursing

Category Lead - Place

£67,290 - £70,710

Are you an experienced procurement professional ready to lead strategic procurement initiatives across a range of critical services? Apply for this job

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Category Lead - Resources

£67,290 - £70,710

Are you an experienced procurement professional ready to lead strategic procurement initiatives across a range of critical services? Apply for this job

Royal Borough of Greenwich

frederica-diamanta

Policy, Parliamentary & Public Affairs Manager

£66,909 - £75,492 pro rata

Premium jobRCN Wales HQ, Cardiff with hybrid working, permanent Apply for this job

Royal College of Nursing

Category Lead - Place

£67,290 - £70,710

Are you an experienced procurement professional ready to lead strategic procurement initiatives across a range of critical services? Apply for this job

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Category Lead - Resources

£67,290 - £70,710

Are you an experienced procurement professional ready to lead strategic procurement initiatives across a range of critical services? Apply for this job

Royal Borough of Greenwich