PLANNING

Bid to end housing targets blocked

By Martin Ford | 20 October 2022

An attempt to pass a law making house building targets advisory rather than mandatory has been bl...

WHITEHALL

Levelling Up Fund timeframe slips

By Martin Ford | 19 October 2022

Secretary of state Simon Clarke promised an outcome by ‘the end of this year’.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling up is needed more than ever

By Jonathan Webb | 19 October 2022

Jonathan Webb says if the Truss Government is still serious about levelling up, now is the time t...

HOMELESSNESS

Concerns raised over homelessness surge

By Martin Ford | 19 October 2022

Levelling up minister Andrew Stephenson has been challenged over Whitehall’s homelessness statist...

COUNCIL TAX

Policy trumps PR

By Dan Corry | 19 October 2022

Dan Corry says the Prime Minister has perhaps now learned that if a policy is fundamentally poor,...

DEVOLUTION

Durham bids to join North East devo deal

By Martin Ford | 18 October 2022

Durham CC is bidding to join the North East devolution deal as negotiations reach their conclusion.

PEOPLE

DCN vice chair awarded peerage

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2022

District Councils’ Network (DCN) vice-chair Sharon Taylor is to step down from the role after bei...

HEALTH

It's never too late to turn things around

By Amreen Qureshi | 17 October 2022

Amreen Qureshi says Truss can yet commit to, and deliver, the levelling up agenda by prioritising...

WHITEHALL

Council audit failures hit Government accounts

By Dan Peters | 14 October 2022

Failures in the local audit market in England and Wales mean central Government has ‘poorer quali...

WHITEHALL

Dilnot calls for £6bn for social care

By Dan Peters | 14 October 2022

The leader of a review into the future of funding social care under the coalition Government has ...

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Corporate Director of Children and Family Services

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Forged through an industrial past, Stoke-on-Trent is a city with creativity and kindness at its heart. Apply for this job

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