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OFSTED

Ofsted to visit councils and children's social care providers

By Ann McGauran | 17 August 2020

Ofsted will resume its visits to local authorities and children's social care providers from Sept...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Restored visits by Ofsted are 'not about judging'

By Yvette Stanley | 17 August 2020

Rather than creating something new, Ofsted’s visits from September to schools and social care and...

FINANCE

Advisers offer neat solution to the rocky road ahead

By Heather Jameson | 11 August 2020

As a raft of councils could face difficulties from their commercial investment, or just failing f...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Birmingham improvement model could be used elsewhere

By Dan Peters | 11 August 2020

An improvement model that has helped turn around Birmingham City Council could be rolled out to o...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Learning the lessons from interventions

By Paul McDermott | 05 August 2020

Paul McDermott says the MHCLG’s analysis of corporate dysfunction is a must read, as it raises th...

WHITEHALL

CCN steps back from backing 'radical' shake-up

By Dan Peters | 04 August 2020

The County Councils’ Network (CCN) will hold back from calling for historic boundaries to determi...

WHITEHALL

'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020

The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...

OMBUDSMAN

Ombudsman makes 12% more service improvement recommendations

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

Increasing systemic problems identified in residents’ complaints has led to the Local Government ...

WHITEHALL

Williams: I'll accept whatever it takes to get a county unitary

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

The leader of Hertfordshire CC has conceded he would accept a directly-elected mayor as the figur...

WHITEHALL

Committee bemoans 18-month delay to report response

By Dan Peters | 24 July 2020

The Committee on Standards in Public Life has scolded ministers for taking 18 months to respond t...

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Senior Strategic Lead - Operations & Talent

£68702.00 - 71395.00 per year

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Southend-on-Sea City Council

Director of Integrated Commissioning

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London Borough of Bexley

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frederica-diamanta

Senior Strategic Lead - Operations & Talent

£68702.00 - 71395.00 per year

Southend-on-Sea City Council is a progressive local authority dedicated to delivering exceptional services and driving meaningful change... Apply for this job

Southend-on-Sea City Council

Director of Integrated Commissioning

£119,505 - £139,146 (inclusive of Choices payment of £5,727 pa)

We don’t just talk about integration in Bexley; we live and breathe it. Apply for this job

London Borough of Bexley

Director of Corporate Services

£100,000 plus excellent pension scheme

We are a forward-looking organisation that genuinely wants to live our new values of People, Pride, Performance and Progress. Apply for this job

St Leger Homes