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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Our peer challenge experience
By Mike Harden | 03 April 2018
Mike Harden breaks down the key learning from Knowsley MBC's recent peer challenge.
SCRUTINY
Donna Hall: Let's bring back the Audit Commission
By Donna Hall | 28 March 2018
Donna Hall believes Northamptonshire CC’s situation and the changing nature of chief executives’ ...
AUDIT
The Audit Commission needed its wings clipped but abolition was not the answer
By Andy Sawford | 28 March 2018
Northamptonshire CC’s woes have been fuelled by a real-time experiment that failed, writes Andy S...
BUSINESS
Government oversight of LEPs not good enough, MPs say
By Hiba Mahamadi | 16 March 2018
The Public Accounts Committee has stressed its lack of faith in the Government’s oversight of loc...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Mayor defends close relationship between LEP and combined authority
By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 March 2018
The mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) has defended the autho...
FINANCE
'Whiteman has brought energy to leadership team'
By Dan Peters | 02 March 2018
Guildford BC’s new managing director has ‘settled into the role well’ and has brought ‘energy’ to...
FINANCE
Councils not held to account for commissioning social care, claims MP
By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 March 2018
Local authorities are not being held to account for the way they spend Government money on social...
SCRUTINY
Report demands new accountability powers for local government
By Sam Clayden | 26 February 2018
Academics have demanded a raft of tools to enable local government to hold to account the ‘chaoti...
BUSINESS
Praise councils for good work, says ombudsman
By Hiba Mahamadi | 26 February 2018
Local authorities should be commended when they act upon ombudsman recommendations instead of jus...
HEALTH
STP to ACS to ACO
15 February 2018
Diary is used to being kept on its toes by regular acronym changes in local government – but heal...
Chief Executive
£205,749 to £224,986
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Chief Executive
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Assistant Director Finance & Governance and Deputy Section 151 Officer
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You will lead a broad and influential portfolio including finance, revenues and benefits, procurement, audit, risk, insurance and corporate fraud. Apply for this job
- Future Forum Midlands: Two councils using agentic AI for citizen contact
- Future Forum Midlands: Civil servants dismiss timetable speculation for LGR review
- Drowning in AI tide
- Future Forum Midlands: Ex-Starmer advisor sees future for reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Burnham wish for new settlement with sector
Chief Executive
£205,749 to £224,986
Premium jobNorth Yorkshire Council is seeking an exceptional leader to become our next Chief Executive. Apply for this job
Chief Executive
£competitive
We are looking for an exceptional senior leader with a strong record of leading change Apply for this job
Assistant Director Finance & Governance and Deputy Section 151 Officer
up to £121,526 + a monthly car allowance of £200 per month + fringe allowance of £753 per annum
You will lead a broad and influential portfolio including finance, revenues and benefits, procurement, audit, risk, insurance and corporate fraud. Apply for this job
- Future Forum Midlands: Two councils using agentic AI for citizen contact
- Future Forum Midlands: Civil servants dismiss timetable speculation for LGR review
- Drowning in AI tide
- Future Forum Midlands: Ex-Starmer advisor sees future for reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Burnham wish for new settlement with sector
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