AUTUMN BUDGET
Budget: £500m a year for local roads maintenance
By Dominic Browne | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced an extra £500m a year for local roads maintenance from nex...
POLITICS
Budget: Reeves attempts to drive up affordable homes
By William Eichler | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed a raft of measures to tackle the ‘desperate lack of afford...
POLITICS
Building the growth narrative
By Adam Fineberg | 30 October 2024
Adam Fineberg looks at the Budget as part of a national programme for growth and public service r...
POLITICS
Budget: Minimum wage and National Insurance rises to hit councils
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed rises to the minimum wage and employers’ National Insuranc...
POLITICS
Budget: Chancellor promises to permanently lower business rates
By Ann McGauran | 30 October 2024
The chancellor prioritised delivering permanently lower business rates from 2026/27 in the Budge...
POLITICS
Budget: Cash bonanza not expected for councils
By Heather Jameson | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to plough cash into public services in today’s Budget – but ...
LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE
Select committee member loses Labour whip as police investigate
By Dan Peters | 28 October 2024
A Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee member has lost the Labour whip after a vid...
SOCIAL CARE
Councils face 'social care blackhole'
By Lee Peart | 24 October 2024
Councils are facing a ‘social care blackhole’ in their finances, according to the Lib Dems.
COUNCILLORS
EXCLUSIVE: Ministers look to strengthen councillor standards
By Dan Peters | 24 October 2024
The new Government is considering options to strengthen the standards and conduct for those in lo...
IMPROVEMENT
Commissioner hints at ministry intervention shift
By Dan Peters | 23 October 2024
New minister Jim McMahon will approach intervention in a more ‘supportive and collaborative way’,...
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Assistant Director Democracy, Information and Elections
£78,000 - £84,000
Reporting to the General Counsel, you will be a Deputy Monitoring Officer who will lead and develop democratic services... Apply for this job
Social Care Assessment & Reablement Manager (STAR)
Band I, SCP 44 - 47 (£53,885 - £57,195) per annum
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality reablement and support for service users to live independently? Apply for this job
Strategic Director Finance (deputy s.151)
£113,431 to £125,279
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