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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...
ELECTIONS
London Assembly to probe Barnet election failings
By Sam Clayden | 15 June 2016
The London Assembly has announced plans to probe the local election day failures in Barnet.
SOCIAL CARE
A focus on social workers
By Chris Squire | 15 June 2016
After inspectors rated Somerset’s children’s services ‘inadequate’, the county council focused it...
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Executive Director of Place and Customer
up to £179,404 per annum
Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job
Director of Social Work and Social Care
£100,731 to £104,625
You will join a values-driven senior leadership team, providing visible and responsive leadership. Apply for this job
Environmental Services Contract Manager
£52,413 - £59,615 per year
This is a role with real strategic influence. From shaping policy and commissioning service improvements Apply for this job
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