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PAY
A national workforce strategy is needed to tackle skills shortage
By Michael Burton | 13 April 2022
With pay likely to remain stagnant and labour shortages to continue, local authorities need a rob...
WHITEHALL
Soaring vacancies and declining pay highlight sector crisis
By Dan Peters | 12 April 2022
Latest figures this week showing the soaring number of job vacancies coupled with declining publi...
FINANCE
Town halls must find more cash for wages
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Paul Marinko | 06 April 2022
Councils have been warned they will have to find more in their budgets to fund the sector’s incre...
PAY
Council leaders defend pay decisions after pressure group findings
By William Eichler | 06 April 2022
Council leaders have defended senior pay in response to a report that found the number of staff r...
FINANCE
Inflation threatens council budget planning
By Michael Burton | 06 April 2022
The forecasts of 8.7% inflation at the end of the year threaten to dramatically change the public...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
How 'levelling up' got left out of the Spring Statement
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 29 March 2022
The chancellor mentioned the ‘levelling up’ agenda just once in his Spring Statement. Without ser...
PAY
Pay 'not number one feature' in staff retention
By Martin Ford | 28 March 2022
Culture and opportunities for career advancement are more important to council staff than pay, pe...
PAY
No green shoots from the Spring Statement
By Sarah Longlands | 21 March 2022
Sarah Longlands says that Westminster may be retreating to a pre-COVID state of policy inertia on...
PAY
Coventry bin dispute escalates after ACAS ruling
By Paul Marinko | 14 March 2022
The ongoing strike by Coventry refuse workers could stretch into the summer after a fierce war of...
FINANCE
Public sector staff face big pay cuts
By Michael Burton | 10 March 2022
Public sector staff face big cuts in their real terms pay as galloping inflation erodes planned i...
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- Exclusive: Reorganisation 'heaps further pressure' on children's leadership
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- London borough chief to retire
- GMB branch secretaries to go on strike against own union
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
Executive Director of Children’s Services (DCS)
£149,000 – £175,000
This is a defi ning leadership opportunity in a borough with real momentum Apply for this job
Registered Manager - Children's Home - WMF2945e
£51,356 - £52,413 (plus an additional market factor supplement of £7,842)
Are you looking for a role that offers more than just career progression? Apply for this job
Director of Quality and Safeguarding
£100,731 - £104,625
Trafford is a borough with ambition at its heart. Apply for this job
- Exclusive: Reorganisation 'heaps further pressure' on children's leadership
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- London borough chief to retire
- GMB branch secretaries to go on strike against own union
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
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