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WHITEHALL

Just how serious are we about sector-led improvement?

By Heather Jameson | 20 January 2015

As the Local Government Association (LGA) launches its consultation documents on sector-led impro...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Wanted. New local governance structures

By Simon Parker | 19 January 2015

If the sector doesn't start building the locality of tomorrow today, and prefigure the final devo...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Is free speech offensive?

By Claire Fox | 19 January 2015

Local authorities are guilty of pandering to a ‘PC gone mad’ offence culture in which the bleatin...

CLIMATE CHANGE

1m voters are missing, claims Miliband

By Jamie Hailstone | 16 January 2015

Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned that 1m voters have disappeared from the Electoral Register ...

WHITEHALL

Elected mayors ideal to top combined authorities

By Colin Copus | 15 January 2015

Professor of local politics at De Montfort University, Colin Copus, admits that directly-elected ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The mayor the merrier?

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

Dan Peters talks to leading local government figures to assess whether directly-elected mayors ar...

FINANCE

It's not Armageddon, we're getting on with it

By Stephen Evans | 09 January 2015

The next time you hear about Barnet LBC’s pursuit of local government armageddon, you might stop ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Pickles announces ex-council chief Caller as Tower Hamlets commissioner

By Dan Peters | 17 December 2014

Former council chief executive Max Caller has been announced as one of the commissioners who will...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Brum is too big to fail

By Heather Jameson | 15 December 2014

Too big to handle or just badly managed? Britain’s second city has come under the spotlight, with...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Tweeting the gap between #localgov and communities

By Adam Leeder | 12 December 2014

This year councils showed a greater appetite for and invested more time in using social media tha...

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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director – Adults & Health

£176,061 – £196,002

Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job

Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

£89,116 - £104,843 per annum

Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

up to £137,831

Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council