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By Ann Carruthers | 23 January 2024

Suzanne Smith and Ann Carruthers set out recommendations to government from a report highlighting...

WHITEHALL

MPs call on Sunak to boost council settlement

By Heather Jameson | 22 January 2024

More than 40 MPs have called on the Government to rethink the finance settlement in a bid to resc...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

A new Government provides the opportunity for long-term reform

By Simon Edwards | 15 January 2024

The SEN system and the broken children’s social care residential market are the main drivers of ...

FINANCE

Stormy waters ahead

By Mark Conrad | 08 January 2024

Mark Conrad talks to three major groups of councils about what the provisional finance settlement...

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...

Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council

Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council