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PAY
Union recommends pay offer rejection
By Dan Peters | 23 May 2024
Trade union Unison has today recommended council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland rej...
FINANCE
Will the lights go out locally?
17 May 2024
Max Mosley examines the perfect storm that destroyed local government finances and looks at what ...
PAY
Chiefs offered 2.5% pay increase
By Dan Peters | 16 May 2024
Local government employers have proposed a 2.5% pay rise to council chief executives and senior o...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Oracle project costs soar from £3m to £40m
By Martin Ford | 09 May 2024
The budget for replacing an IT system with Oracle has ballooned from £2.6m to almost £40m, counci...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Wages below 2008 levels in two-thirds of council areas
By William Eichler | 29 April 2024
Real wages are still below 2008 levels in nearly two-thirds of UK local authority areas, TUC anal...
FINANCE
'No appetite' for Scottish equal pay unit
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Scottish Government ministers are unlikely to establish a national equal pay unit despite calls f...
PAY
TPA analysis of senior local government pay is relentlessly unsophisticated
By Graeme McDonald | 22 April 2024
Graeme McDonald says: 'Perhaps the diminishing number of national news outlets covering the TPA’s...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Unison warns of looming strike as it awaits pay offer
By Ellie Ames | 22 April 2024
Scotland’s largest local government union has warned strike preparations could begin next week am...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Scots government 'unlikely' to create equal pay body
By Mark Conrad | 19 April 2024
Scottish Government ministers are unlikely to establish a national equal pay unit, despite calls ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Left and behind: women at work
By Sarah Longlands | 02 April 2024
Building gender equality and diversity into plans for economic growth has benefits for everyone, ...
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Director of Digital, Data and Technology
£139,000 per annum
Shape the future of a digitally enabled borough Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care Commissioning
£130,000 per annum
Transforming outcomes through integrated commissioning Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care
£145,000 per annum
Leading innovative, strengths-based social care that enables residents to live fulfilling and independent lives Apply for this job
- April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
- Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced
- Budget 2026: High streets to benefit from greater business rates relief
- Budget 2026: Chancellor confirms £285m Good Growth funding
- Budget 2026: Healey's first Budget delivers fiscal devo vision
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