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COHESION
Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
By By Dan Peters | 16 October 2025
Cohesion is ‘core to what we do in local government’, the president of senior officers’ group Sol...
COHESION
Time to ACT on terrorism
By Dr Amy Batley | 01 October 2025
A new counter-terrorism system – ACT for local authorities – puts the emphasis on five areas of...
SAFEGUARDING
Red flags and boiling frogs: a damning picture that the National Youth Strategy must fix
By Leigh Middleton | 22 September 2025
With the Government's National Youth Strategy due to be published, Leigh Middleton warns that wit...
HUMAN RIGHTS
Fears over lack of teeth behind mandatory reporting duty
By Neil Merrick | 14 July 2025
Government plans to make it a mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse need to be backed up wi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: LGA tells councils to hold fire on grooming response
By Dan Peters | 22 May 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged councils not to respond to a request from a priv...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Lambeth defends Dosunmu payoff
By Joe Lepper | 28 April 2025
Lambeth LBC has defended a payoff totalling almost £88,000 to its former chief who admitted faili...
LEGAL
Trial dates fixed for Liverpool City Council corruption case
By Dan Peters | 25 April 2025
Trial dates have been fixed for two senior officers charged as part of an investigation into Live...
COMBINED AUTHORITY
Staff offered support after mayor's arrest
By William Eichler | 07 April 2025
West of England Combined Authority staff have been offered support after mayor Dan Norris was arr...
LEGAL
Former Liverpool director denies bribery
By Dan Peters | 31 March 2025
Liverpool City Council’s former head of regeneration Nick Kavanagh has denied two counts of bribe...
POLITICS
McMahon hints over councillor suspension power
By Dan Peters | 12 March 2025
Local government minister Jim McMahon has hinted he will push ahead with handing councils the pow...
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Director of Corporate Services
£116,572 – £124,881
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- Local government reorganisation review nears completion
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Rayner expected to send in commissioners to Bedford BC
- EXCLUSIVE: Labour-led Brent and Barking and Dagenham miss out on first round of London homes cash
- Call for long-term EFS plan
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