Immigration

By Mark Conrad | 18 July 2023

A controversial barge for 500 asylum seekers today arrived at its mooring off the Dorset coast.

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Council leaders hit out at Government asylum policy

By Mark Conrad | 17 July 2023

Council concerns over home secretary Suella Braverman’s handling of the asylum crisis have been l...

WHITEHALL

Dismay at 'top-down diktat' approach to asylum

By Mark Conrad | 11 July 2023

Councils and MPs this week expressed dismay at the Home Office’s ‘top-down diktat’ plan to double...

ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES

'Not acceptable' to treat age disputed young people as spontaneous arrivals

06 July 2023

It is ‘simply not acceptable’ that age disputed young people from asylum hotels are treated as sp...

Kent launches legal action over asylum-seeking children

By Ellie Ames | 06 July 2023

Kent CC has issued a claim for judicial review against the home secretary, asking her to direct o...

WHITEHALL

Make it local

By Mark Lloyd | 04 July 2023

Looking ahead to a General Election, Mark Lloyd says the Local Government Association, as the nat...

HOUSING

Eco rules are stifling development

By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 04 July 2023

Nutrient neutrality rules are stifling, and in many parts of the country the risk is that develop...

FINANCE

Power through partnership

By Tom Riordan | 04 July 2023

More than a decade after the Commission on the Future of Local Government, and as we advance towa...

IMMIGRATION

Judge rules on controversial asylum hotel

By Mark Conrad | 03 July 2023

The Home Office must consider alternatives to a controversial asylum hotel in Brighton & Hove's b...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Opportunity knocks for the sector

27 June 2023

Ahead of next week’s Local Government Association (LGA) annual conference in Bournemouth, The MJ ...

Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

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Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

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Nottingham City Council

Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

Nottingham City Council