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REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Essex steps back from reorganisation legal challenge

By Paul Marinko | 16 April 2026

Essex CC has stepped back from a legal challenge to the Government’s reorganisation plans but cal...

REORGANISATION

The amount of local reform requires clear vision and better alignment

By Susan Parsonage | 16 April 2026

Susan Parsonage says the scale of reforms to councils, Integrated Care Boards and the police call...

REORGANISATION

LGR disruption offers long-term opportunity

By Caroline Compton-James | 16 April 2026

Councils understand the longterm benefits that reorganisation can unlock, and are also clear abou...

FINANCE

Winning the war on waste?

By David Blackman | 16 April 2026

Is Reform UK’s waste drive just a saloon bar dream or are there still genuine efficiencies to be ...

SOLACE

Prevention is not an ideological choice; it is a practical necessity

By Graeme McDonald | 16 April 2026

There is a risk that the sector burns more time debating boundaries, governance and organisationa...

REORGANISATION

Sussex: a warning, not an anomaly

By Samer Bagaeen | 15 April 2026

Samer Bagaeen argues it would be comforting to treat ‘paralysis’ on reorganisation in Sussex as a...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Peers push back on committee system ban

By Neil Merrick | 14 April 2026

Peers have backed the right of councils to use committee systems, including by unitaries created ...

REORGANISATION

Gloucestershire's devolution prize may not be on the table

By Kathy O'Leary | 14 April 2026

Gloucestershire's response to the Government's consultation on areas for spatial development stra...

REORGANISATION

LGR creates major challenges for the corporate services that many have reduced and pared back for years

By Stephen Moir | 13 April 2026

Stephen Moir says corporate services are exactly the teams and services that will need protection...

ADPH

Putting prevention first

By Matthew Ashton | 09 April 2026

Prof Matthew Ashton says investing in our communities and places, and delivering on the promise o...

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£54,994 - £62,777 per annum

Lead the future of multi-agency child protection in Cheshire East. Apply for this job

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