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REORGANISATION
Local Government Reorganisation: Why services matters more than boundaries
By By Iain Murray | 28 August 2025
Local government reorganisation, says Iain Murray. But without integration across health, social ...
PROCUREMENT
Transforming procurement
By Karen Bradford | 18 August 2025
Karen Bradford looks at how to unlock the value of procurement as a strategic tool for local gove...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reshaping the landscape for our children
By Andy Smith | 15 August 2025
As children’s services face a series of overlapping reforms – not least local government reorgani...
REORGANISATION
Suffolk CC opposition: Maintain roads instead of splashing out on reorganisation publicity
By Dan Peters | 15 August 2025
Suffolk CC has spent around £100,000 of taxpayers’ money promoting a single county unitary to res...
REORGANISATION
Rutland leader weighing options after confidence vote survival
By Joe Lepper | 14 August 2025
Rutland CC’s leader has pledged to consider alternative reorganisation plans after surviving a no...
DEVOLUTION
EXCLUSIVE: Government reluctant to interfere with successful strategic authority boundaries
By Dan Peters | 14 August 2025
The Government has suggested it will not want to rip up existing strategic authority boundaries w...
DEVOLUTION
Cornwall charts its own devo course
By Heather Jameson | 13 August 2025
Cornwall Council resisted the conventional route to devolution, striking its own deal without a m...
UNIONS
The lost art of union relations
By Pam Parkes | 13 August 2025
Working with unions has changed. For councils to thrive through the coming changes, they will nee...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument
By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025
Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents t...
REORGANISATION
Three unitary plan dismissed as 'unworkable' by opponents
By William Eichler | 08 August 2025
Lower-tier council leaders in Suffolk have published local government reorganisation proposals fo...
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Director of People Services
£106,305 - £116,305
This pivotal leadership role will drive the development and delivery of our People Strategy Apply for this job
Service Manager – Quality Assurance & Practice Development
£54,994 - £62,777 per annum
Lead excellence in social work practice and help shape continuous improvement across Children’s Services. Apply for this job
Chief Executive
c.£235,000
In April 2027, West Surrey Council will become one of England's largest new unitary authorities Apply for this job
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