FINANCE

Future Forum 2016: Chief executives 'fired up and positive'

By Dan Peters | 21 April 2016

Local government chief executives are feeling more positive about their jobs compared to a year a...

DCLG

Another initiative joins the Whitehall scrapheap

By Michael Burton | 01 April 2016

Michael Burton considers the downfall of the Public Service Transformation Network and asks what ...

WHITEHALL

What now for transformation?

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2016

A multi-agency network created to help transform local public services was one of the victims of ...

FINANCE

Clark: Treasury demanded efficiency plans

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2016

The requirement for councils to draw up an efficiency plan in return for securing a four-year set...

HUMOUR

Flagging up the big issue

25 November 2015

Amid a never-ending deluge of bad news, Diary is pleased to bring you a bit of local government j...

HEALTH

Porter's senior pay comments jar with LGA view

By Dan Peters | 23 November 2015

Local Government Association (LGA) chairman Lord Porter has criticised the six-figure salaries pa...

BUSINESS

Council fights to keep waste contract details confidential

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 October 2015

Gloucestershire CC has warned a ruling forcing it to publish details of a £500m incinerator contr...

WHITEHALL

Stop bickering – work together or fight it out

By Heather Jameson | 20 October 2015

It seems the moment George Osborne stepped down from his party conference speech, the questions o...

WHITEHALL

Cracking the code

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

Many believe in the need for an ethical code for officers to follow and, in the wake of SOLACE’s ...

FINANCE

Council trials Britain's first monthly bin collection

By Thomas Bridge | 24 September 2015

A council has become the first in Britain to trial monthly bin collections, despite historic gove...

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Sheffield City Council is looking for determined and skilled public sector commissioners. Apply for this job

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Commissioner for Victims and Survivors

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£120,801 market supplement possible for exceptional candidates

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