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FINANCE
PAC concerned about devolution oversight
By Sam Clayden | 01 July 2016
MPs have raised fresh concerns about the oversight and implementation of devolution deals as loca...
FINANCE
How to create the winning team
By Claire Mansfield | 29 June 2016
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has produced research on the relationship between council...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Groundbreaking work on child safeguarding
By Sue Williams | 29 June 2016
Sue Williams explains how Hertfordshire CC used support from the Government’s Innovation Fund to ...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Open scrutiny on government interventions
By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016
Dan Peters examines government intervention in children’s services and asks whether greater trans...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Officers could be identified under future Ofsted rules
By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2016
Poor performing local authority chief executives and their management teams could be named and sh...
SCRUTINY
Council 'failed' to safeguard taxi passengers
By Laura Sharman | 23 June 2016
South Ribble Council had failed to make the safety of taxi passengers a priority when issuing lic...
EDUCATION
Locking out council expertise from schools?
By John O’Brien | 21 June 2016
John O'Brien says local government must ensure improvement in education, no matter who is respons...
FINANCE
Details of £300m grant 'not in the public interest'
By Dan Peters | 21 June 2016
The Government has refused to publish key details about how its £300m transitional grant was allo...
FINANCE
The dog that did not bark
By Graham Chapman | 21 June 2016
After his FOI request on government funding to councils was blocked, Graham Chapman says serious ...
AUDIT
Auditor reports governance failings at Derby City Council
By Sam Clayden | 16 June 2016
Auditor Grant Thornton has highlighted 'significant' governance failings at Derby City Council be...
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner
£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent
You will be expected and enabled to contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing. Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Operational Maintenance)
Special A, SCP 42-45, £53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobThis is an exciting time to join Calderdale’s Highways Maintenance service. Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£109,483 to £122,620
This is a rare and career-defining opportunity to shape the future of public health Apply for this job
- Former local government minister Phil Woolas dies
- Recruitment challenges restricting pace of Sandwell improvement, peers find
- Wirral management overhaul to create executive director roles
- LGA to recruit interim chief
- Whitehall thinks its expenditure should be subject to less scrutiny than the local state
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