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FINANCE
This is not devolution – this is not even centralism
By Heather Jameson | 21 October 2020
‘Once the poster-child for devolution, Manchester is now being treated as the bad boy of politics...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The politics of the 'Red Wall' is coming home to roost
By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 21 October 2020
There is nothing local or ‘place-sensitive’ in measures packaged in Whitehall and forced on to co...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Tiers of trouble
By Ann McGauran | 20 October 2020
More than half of England’s population is now living under high or very high-alert postcode COVID...
WHITEHALL
Hammond: COVID has sealed the fate of centralism
By Heather Jameson | 19 October 2020
The COVID crisis has ‘sealed the fate’ of centralised public services in the UK, former Chancello...
HEALTH
The challenge of health devolution in London
By Dick Sorabji | 15 October 2020
Dick Sorabji, deputy chief executive of London Councils, charts the progress of health devolution...
DEVOLUTION
Report calls for fundamental reform
By Laura Sharman | 15 October 2020
The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the ‘dysfunctional relationship’ between ce...
WHITEHALL
Jenrick dashes county reorganisation hopes
By Dan Peters | 13 October 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has torpedoed plans for widespread reorganisation beyon...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The power of small things
By Simon Kaye | 13 October 2020
Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Simon Kaye argues that her...
DEVOLUTION
Whatever happened to devolution?
By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 07 October 2020
Devolution is an ‘unfinished’, disconnected project that benefits some areas but excludes others,...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Digging deep for change
By Neil McInroy | 07 October 2020
The pandemic has not resulted in the big changes required to protect health and drive widespread ...
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- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
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- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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