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INNOVATION
Innovation: the key
By Abdool Kara | 05 February 2025
Local government is feeling the squeeze. To transform services, it must unlock innovation, writes...
INTERVENTION
Liverpool strides to walk alone
By Heather Jameson | 18 December 2024
The leader and chief executive of Liverpool City Council talk to Heather Jameson about the author...
REGENERATION
Regeneration rooted in heart and heritage
By Donna Nolan | 18 December 2024
Donna Nolan reveals how Watford is leading the way in sustainable local regeneration with its lan...
PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
Test and learn sites could catalyse deeper place-based reform
By Jessica Studdert | 17 December 2024
The four new test and learn sites in Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester and Essex make it clear the...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growing challenges
By Greg Clark | 09 October 2024
Greg Clark sets out the obstacles the Government’s forthcoming Industrial Strategy must address t...
FINANCE
To succeed, a missions approach need to be a collective endeavour
By Jon Rowney | 09 August 2024
Missions should be ambitious enough to require organisations to innovate to achieve long-term goa...
WHITEHALL
Helping folk stay afloat
By Chris Naylor | 25 June 2024
Chris Naylor says his intuitively simple vision is for a neighbourhood-based preventative state –...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Chief executives' development programme launched
By Dan Peters | 14 June 2024
A first-of-its-kind development programme designed to meet the needs and future challenges of chi...
DIGITAL
The place of possibilities
By Sarah Norman | 11 June 2024
As the sector’s brightest and best gear up for The MJ Awards 2024, Sarah Norman reflects on Barns...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Mission: Possible
By Andrew Greenway | 05 June 2024
Work is underway to develop a practical solution, in collaboration with local authorities, for de...
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Assistant Director of Legal and Governance (Deputy Monitoring Officer)
£91,639 to £99,427
We are seeking someone with a strong grounding in local government law and governance, or experience gained in a similar environment. Apply for this job
Head of Skills and Opportunity
£80,737 - £89,465
You will be at the heart of a rapidly changing education, employment and skills landscape. Apply for this job
Director of Planning and Building Control
up to £140,000
Our new director will play a key role at the heart of the Council’s ambitious agenda for place‐based growth and regeneration. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Solace president issues rewiring the state warning
- Chiefs weigh up career costs of LGR pause
- Local government: Time for tougher standards to deal with abuse and bullying
- Solace standards report highlights lack of police engagement
- Local government pandemic planning criticised by Covid Inquiry
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