WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Home Office threatens to ramp up pressure on asylum

By Struan Walker | 11 September 2023

Uncooperative councils could be strong-armed into taking greater numbers of asylum seekers, The M...

PLANNING

Council halts work on RAF Scampton

By Ellie Ames | 08 September 2023

West Lindsey DC has ordered the Home Office to stop work to convert a former military base into a...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Home Office struggle to deliver Sunak's asylum backlog pledge

By Mark Conrad | 04 September 2023

Home Office officials are struggling to deliver Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s promise to clear a h...

IMMIGRATION

Councils can work magic to welcome new migrants

By Lucy Mort | 26 August 2023

Migration is not going away and supporting people to live well – no matter their immigration stat...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

No easy answers to refugee housing conundrum

By Natalie Brahma-Pearl | 26 August 2023

Ending the use of bridging hotels for Afghan refugees will not resolve accommodation issues any t...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils reject refugee housing fund

By Dan Peters | 25 August 2023

Tens of millions of pounds of a fund designed to support English councils to obtain housing for t...

ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES

EXCLUSIVE: Questions over child age assessments

By Martin Ford | 25 August 2023

Council directors have raised doubts over Government plans to take over age assessments of unacco...

WHITEHALL

Council finance risk from VOA reclassification

By Struan Walker | 24 August 2023

Council incomes could be hit if a Government agency moves to reclassify asylum hotels as domestic...

FINANCE

Asylum 'perma-backlog' to impact councils

By Martin Ford | 22 August 2023

Reforms to the UK’s asylum system are likely to pile more pressure on councils struggling to supp...

HEALTH

Is it time for local government to say enough is enough?

By Heather Jameson | 08 August 2023

'Instead of pushing pressures – and people – from pillar to post, public services should be worki...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Regeneration

£80,229 - £83,448

The Council is seeking to recruit an experienced Head of Regeneration to join our dynamic Regeneration and Economic Development Service Apply for this job

London Borough of Hackney Council

Project Manager

£50,574 - £53,607

We want to become a more strategic, efficient and adaptive organisation, to deliver for our communities. Apply for this job

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Director of Early Years, Education and Skills

£106,361 to £115,452

This is an exciting time to join Bury Council. Apply for this job

Bury Council