HOMELESSNESS

Dame Louise Casey to get peerage

By Heather Jameson | 31 July 2020

Dame Louise Casey has been nominated to sit in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer in the lat...

WHITEHALL

CIPFA calls for strengthening of council borrowing rules

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Legislation governing the rules on council borrowing should be strengthened, the Chartered Instit...

WHITEHALL

Plan to hand social care to NHS is for 'wrong reasons'

By Heather Jameson | 29 July 2020

Plans to hand social care to the NHS are being mooted for ‘all the wrong reasons,’ local governme...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Havering stands by investigation lead choice

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

Havering LBC has insisted the officer chosen to lead an investigation into gerrymandering and mis...

WHITEHALL

LEP Network comes out fighting ahead of White Paper

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

The chair of the network that supports local enterprise partnerships (LEP) has come out fighting ...

HOUSING

Ministers to extend Help to Buy

By Michael Burton | 28 July 2020

Ministers are drawing up plans to extend the Help to Buy scheme after housebuilders warned buyers...

DATA

Councils get faster data insights to boost their COVID-19 recovery

By Deven Ghelani | 26 July 2020

Policy in Practice has secured new funding from Innovate UK, meaning councils will now have acces...

FINANCE

Ministers deny Town's fund cronyism

By Heather Jameson | 21 July 2020

Ministers have denied allegations that they favoured Conservative areas when they distributed mon...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Government told to recommit to local industrial strategies

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2020

Local industrial strategies (LIS) should be the ‘starting point for economic recovery plans,’ the...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Better response to pandemic from European councils, says think-tank

By Dan Peters | 16 July 2020

Local government across Europe has been able to react to the coronavirus crisis with greater powe...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Change

Upto £80,468

This role will Lead and manage large-scale transformation projects across the council. Apply for this job

Lancashire County Council

Director of Repairs & Maintenance

Up to £130,000

We are working with Lampton Services, a company wholly owned by the Borough of Hounslow Apply for this job

Lampton Group

Assistant Director of Operations, Adult Social Care

£95,400 - £106,008

As a highly credible and skilled practitioner, you will have considerable experience of leading and delivering adult services Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council