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PAY
Employers' warning over wage pressures as unions consider offer
By Dan Peters | 28 April 2025
Wage pressures are contributing to the local government funding gap of £1.9bn in 2025-26, council...
REORGANISATION
Reforming and transforming
By Heather Jameson | 24 April 2025
As councils rush towards reorganisation, what are the lessons from past redesigns? Heather Jameso...
PAY
Pay offer for council employees announced
By Martin Ford | 23 April 2025
National Employers have made an offer of a 3.2% pay increase for council employees from 1 April 2...
PAY
Union announces strike ballot over pay
By Martin Ford | 16 April 2025
Scottish council workers are to be balloted over strike action in response to what a union has de...
PAY
Return on investment is the real issue
By Julie Towers | 08 April 2025
If chief executives’ impact in local government is measured using clear metrics then perhaps the ...
WORKFORCE
Angry reaction to Starmer stance on Brum bin strike
By Martin Ford | 07 April 2025
A war of words has broken out between the Government and union bosses over the bin strike in Birm...
PAY
Leaders call for tough pay negotiating stance
By Dan Peters | 05 March 2025
Council leaders have warned a tough stance is needed during pay negotiations as local government ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Why councils are crucial to a national care service
By Gavin Edwards | 28 February 2025
Gavin Edwards outlines the elements that should form the basis of any national care system, inclu...
UNIONS
Unions demand £3,000 pay rise
By Dan Peters | 31 January 2025
Trade unions have jointly submitted a pay claim for all council employees to receive a wage rise ...
SCOTLAND
'Record' funding settlement for Scottish councils
By Dan Peters | 13 December 2024
Scottish councils are expected to share a ‘record’ funding settlement of more than £15bn, provisi...
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Director of Quality and Safeguarding
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- London borough chief to retire
- Exclusive: Reorganisation 'heaps further pressure' on children's leadership
- MHCLG praises council capability on housing
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
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