SOCIAL CARE

CQC raps quality of adult care services

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

More than a third of adult social care services have been rated as requiring improvement or inade...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

SOLACE code needs to have 'more bite'

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

A committee will be formed to develop the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives’ (SOLACE) c...

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

When prevention is the cure

By Will Tuckley | 10 September 2015

Prevention is better than cure – if it is approached in a businesslike fashion, according to Will...

WHITEHALL

LGA spared top-slice cash cuts

By Heather Jameson | 09 September 2015

Whitehall plans to take sector-led improvement cash out of the hands of the Local Government Asso...

FINANCE

Rotherham's future progress 'not in doubt'

By Dan Peters | 09 September 2015

Change at Rotherham MBC is ‘not yet embedded but future progress is not in doubt,’ lead commissio...

WHITEHALL

An issue of control

By Mark Whitehead | 03 September 2015

Education is being prised out of the hands of local authorities, but it may have gone too far, sa...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ofsted slammed over judgements

By Dan Peters | 03 September 2015

A social work professor has accused Ofsted of ‘undermining and destabilising’ children’s services...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Council invests £600k to improve children's services

By Mark Whitehead | 01 September 2015

West Berkshire Council is investing £600,000 in new staff and extra training as part of a plan to...

FINANCE

DCLG grants £4.37m to fund Birmingham improvement

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2015

Birmingham City Council will speed up work on its improvement programme thanks to a £4.37m grant ...

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frederica-diamanta

Chief Digital and Information Officer

£88,679 to £103,255

Now is a great time to look at joining Reading. Apply for this job

Reading Borough Council

Executive Director, Operations

£97,601 per annum

Ashfield is thriving. We are proud of our district and our ambition is to be ‘great’ across all our services. Apply for this job

Ashfield District Council

Assistant Director Legal, Governance and Coroners (Monitoring Officer)

£91,230-£102,921

Rochdale Borough Council is looking for a pioneering, passionate and proud Assistant Director of Legal, Governance and Coroners (Monitoring Officer). Apply for this job

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