Title
FINANCE
Going local on tax raising
By Alistair Jones | 13 August 2019
Boris Johnson has promised to grant more powers to local government, but has been silent on how t...
CULTURE
Union 'bewildered' by backing of city of culture bid
By Martin Ford | 31 July 2019
Bradford City Council has come under fire after backing a campaign to become the UK’s city of cul...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Leave those kids alone
By Claire Fox | 30 July 2019
Claire Fox says councils continue to thwart kids’ play activities in the interests of bureaucracy
WHITEHALL
Brum tourist tax call from ex-ministers
By Dan Peters | 22 July 2019
Former ministers have called for a tourist tax to be trialled in Birmingham to help fund the Comm...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Time for a UK-wide debate on tourism levies
By Cllr Judith Blake | 03 July 2019
Cities south of the border including Birmingham have plans to consider tourism levies. Cllr Judit...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Driving ahead with a new cultural and tourism strategy
By Sheila Oxtoby | 18 June 2019
Great Yarmouth BC is finalising a new strategy aligning its tourism and cultural offers, says She...
PLANNING
Planning permission for council sports centre quashed
By Martin Ford | 10 June 2019
Elmbridge BC may be forced to demolish its multi-million pound sports hub after a High Court judg...
LEISURE
Poo are you kidding?
28 May 2019
Diary was zapped back to the Mesozoic era this week after coming across a council’s mischievous c...
FINANCE
Welcome to Yorkshire chair resigns as expenses investigations begin
By Martin Ford | 18 April 2019
The board chairman of a Yorkshire tourism body has resigned following an expenses scandal that ha...
FINANCE
Doubts over new taxes to fund Commonwealth Games
By Martin Ford | 15 April 2019
New forms of tax are unlikely to fill a £40m hole in funding for the Commonwealth Games budget, c...
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Competitive Salary
You will lead an organisation with ambition, complexity and reach, while helping shape the future of a place Apply for this job
Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care
Up to £123,477
To help drive this vision forward, we’re seeking an exceptional Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care. Apply for this job
Deputy Director Children’s Services (Director of Children’s Social Care)
Competitive Salary
Reporting to the Director of Children’s Services, you will lead services across one of England Apply for this job
- LGA proposes alternative to commissioners
- Council changes approach to providers after contract collapse
- Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty
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