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BUSINESS RATES
Taxation tribulations for a post-COVID nation
By Heather Jameson | 20 January 2021
Last weekend was the turn of policy ideas on council tax and stamp duty to be run anonymously in ...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Hughes named new rough sleeping minister
By Martin Ford | 18 January 2021
Kelly Tolhurst stepped down from the role for family reasons after five months in the role.
CLIMATE CHANGE
A blueprint for locally-led green recovery
By Cara Jenkinson | 11 January 2021
A coalition including councils, Ashden, ADEPT and others is arguing for five priorities for actio...
HOUSING
Government urged to bring back Everyone In programme
By Laura Sharman | 07 January 2021
The Government has been urged to ensure all rough sleepers are housed during the third national l...
FINANCE
Merton to close development company
By Martin Ford | 18 December 2020
Councillors will be asked to wind up the authority’s development company next week without a bric...
PLANNING
Jenrick announces revised plan for housing algorithm
By William Eichler | 16 December 2020
The Government has announced a raft of new measures in an attempt to provide much-needed homes in...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Driving community wealth and green jobs in Lewes
15 December 2020
Isaac Stanley looks at how Lewes DC is using the potential of community wealth building to increa...
WHITEHALL
Councils boycott 'cruel and draconian' deportation rules
By Martin Ford | 11 December 2020
Growing numbers of councils have refused to implement new government rules that could lead to mig...
WHITEHALL
Minister cools on national infrastructure levy
By Martin Ford | 09 December 2020
Government proposals for a national infrastructure levy may be dropped, a minister has suggested.
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
MPs savage abandoned £192m housing scheme
By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020
A £192m affordable housing programme that failed to deliver any homes has been labelled ‘deplorab...
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£79,807 - £89,823 (LG pension & competitive employment package)
You will provide strategic leadership across the transformation and improvement portfolio, Apply for this job
Head of Early Years and Early Help
£90,126 - £98,319
Merton is an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ authority—yet it is our ambition, our humility, and our drive to keep learning that truly define us. Apply for this job
Senior Public Health Analyst
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Public Health Analyst to join us! Apply for this job
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