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SCRUTINY
Liverpool Labour and the wider party should never have let this happen
By Emma Burnell | 06 April 2021
After Max Caller's 'shocking' report on Liverpool City Council, Labour needs to make a case for g...
EDUCATION
Councillors call extraordinary meeting over director secondment
By Martin Ford | 23 March 2021
Councillors in Stockport said they had been ‘treated with contempt’ after a joint director with T...
FINANCE
What can be learnt from the recent Public Interest Reports?
By Paul Dossett | 12 March 2021
Paul Dossett of Grant Thornton UK considers the key lessons for local government that have emerge...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Councils should not 'overly collude' with 'flagellation' on governance
By Ann McGauran | 09 March 2021
Councils should not ‘overly collude’ with the ‘flagellation that sometimes comes from the centre’...
SCRUTINY
A toolkit for good governance
By Lord Bob Kerslake | 09 March 2021
Launched this week, a new framework for examining complex local governance challenges focused on ...
SCRUTINY
Groundwork laid for combined authority
By Martin Ford | 04 March 2021
Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council are pressing ahead with laying the politic...
HEALTH
Local scrutiny should stay embedded in the local community
By Ed Hammond | 02 March 2021
Local scrutiny can and must play an ongoing and supportive role relating to the Secretary of Stat...
SCRUTINY
Building citizen centred systems to deliver the best integrated care
By Anja Beriro | 17 February 2021
Local government has the mechanisms and knowledge to ensure place, neighbourhoods and citizens ar...
WHITEHALL
Sector braced for more Whitehall interventions
By Dan Peters | 17 November 2020
Local government is braced for further Whitehall interventions in the wake of ministers launching...
LEGAL
Picking up lessons from poker
By Nick Graham | 12 October 2020
Nick Graham explains why local authority decision-makers should play more poker, and listen to th...
Head of Early Years and Early Help
£90,126 - £98,319
Merton is an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ authority—yet it is our ambition, our humility, and our drive to keep learning that truly define us. Apply for this job
Strategic Director of Finance Operations
£117,061 - £129,288
Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job
Strategic Director of Finance Strategy
£117,061 - £129,288
Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job
Head of Early Years and Early Help
£90,126 - £98,319
Merton is an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ authority—yet it is our ambition, our humility, and our drive to keep learning that truly define us. Apply for this job
Strategic Director of Finance Operations
£117,061 - £129,288
Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job
Strategic Director of Finance Strategy
£117,061 - £129,288
Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job
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