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WHITEHALL
Record number of education, health and care plans made
By Dan Peters | 19 June 2023
A record number of new education, health and care (EHC) plans were made last year, latest figures...
FINANCE
Bristol council faces 'huge financial risk'
By Mark Whitehead | 25 May 2023
Bristol City Council has been warned it must take urgent action over the spiralling cost of speci...
REORGANISATION
Forging the future of local government
By Joanna Killian | 02 May 2023
Joanna Killian, the chief executive of Surrey CC and the newly-elected chair of the Association o...
FINANCE
Council to review governance failures
By Martin Ford | 19 April 2023
Devon CC is to embark on a governance review in a bid to tackle ‘serious, material, well-evidence...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
New ADCS chief calls for cross-government children's plan
18 April 2023
The new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has reiterated hi...
OFSTED
Kent receives improvement notice for SEND failings
By Martin Ford | 06 April 2023
An improvement notice has been issued to Kent CC after it failed to turn around its special educa...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
A focus on early and evidence-based SEND provision
By Halit Hulusi | 10 March 2023
Staffordshire CC is set to launch an enhanced Educational, Health Care Needs Assessment pathway t...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Solving the SEND puzzle
By Steve Crocker | 07 March 2023
We must press Government to not lose sight of the key principles in the Schools White Paper if we...
EDUCATION
New SEND plan fails on 'fundamental' issues, say council leaders
By William Eichler | 02 March 2023
The Government’s new plan to help support children with special educational needs and disabilitie...
FINANCE
SEND advice service requires 'drastic' overhaul
By Martin Ford | 13 January 2023
A special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) advice service has been savaged in an indepen...
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Registered Manager - Children's Home - WMF2945e
£51,356 - £52,413 (plus an additional market factor supplement of £7,842)
Are you looking for a role that offers more than just career progression? Apply for this job
Director of Quality and Safeguarding
£100,731 - £104,625
Trafford is a borough with ambition at its heart. Apply for this job
Senior Lawyer (Housing)
£55,296 - £60,286 per annum
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lawyer (Housing) to join us! Apply for this job
- London borough chief to retire
- Exclusive: Reorganisation 'heaps further pressure' on children's leadership
- MHCLG praises council capability on housing
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
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