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TRADE DEAL
Mayors to lead more trade missions, experts predict
By Dan Peters | 04 August 2026
The UK’s first joint mayoral-led mission to India due to take place later this year is a sign of things to come, experts have suggested.
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Mayors warned over partnership working
By Joe Lepper | 03 August 2026
Mayoral strategic authorities (MSAs) need to improve their partnership working with investors to ...
FINANCE
Council to save interest after securing loan
By Dan Peters | 30 July 2026
The National Wealth Fund has granted West Suffolk Council a £9m loan to help deliver a state-of-t...
HERITAGE
Let's treat heritage buildings as civic infrastructure
By Jonathan Werran | 29 July 2026
Jonathan Werran asks if heritage buildings can prove an unlikely policy winner for a prime minist...
SKILLS
Local government handed role developing skills pipelines
By Martin Ford | 28 July 2026
Councils and mayors will be given a role in developing skills pipelines for local industries unde...
BUSINESS RATES
Burnham's small business rates plan could cost £880m a year
By William Eichler | 06 July 2026
Andy Burnham’s proposed rates reforms could help cut business rates for over 100,000 small busine...
LOCAL ECONOMIES
Taking back control
By Sarah Longlands | 01 July 2026
Is Burnham’s vision of the productive state a licence for local government to take back control, ...
COMBINED AUTHORITY
Strategic authority in senior role swap
By Dan Peters | 26 June 2026
West Yorkshire Combined Authority will replace its chief operating officer role with an executive...
DEVOLUTION
Devolution could 'deepen regional imbalances'
By Martin Ford | 03 June 2026
The Government’s chosen path of devolution could make regional inequality in England worse, a thi...
STRONGER THINGS
Mission: Local economy
By Grace Pollard | 21 May 2026
Grace Pollard says speakers at next month’s Stronger Things will imagine how future local governm...
LOCAL ECONOMIES
Economic growth is not enough
By Tom Lloyd Goodwin | 12 May 2026
Strategic authorities must start treating economic development as health policy, says Tom Lloyd G...
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Chief Executive
c.£235,000
In April 2027, West Surrey Council will become one of England's largest new unitary authorities Apply for this job
Business Manager – Knowsley Safeguarding Children Partnership (KSCP)
£54,703 - £60,044
Knowsley Council is an award-winning Local Authority, named Local Authority of the Year in the Municipal Journal Awards 2024. Apply for this job
Deputy Social Care Manager
£52,413 - £54,495 per annum
Are you looking for your next step in your Social Work management career? Apply for this job
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