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SOLACE
Our role will be refocused around resilience
By Graeme McDonald | 06 April 2020
Beyond the initial emergency response, we must ensure communities can emerge and re-establish the...
SOCIAL CARE
We will do everything we can to save lives
By Martin Swales | 26 March 2020
The national COVID-19 emergency is seeing the very best of our councils and our workforces and we...
SOLACE
The work of local government has become 'even more urgent'
By Ann McGauran | 26 March 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting ‘the very best of councils and our workforces’, accordin...
PAY
Former Solace chief takes crisis pay cut
By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2020
Former Solace president Jo Miller has taken a 10% pay cut as her council launched a range of meas...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Jenrick urges councils not to delay on coronavirus spending
By Dan Peters | 17 March 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick this week urged council leaders not to put off decision...
SOCIAL CARE
There is still plenty for this Government to 'get done'
By Martin Reeves | 16 March 2020
The Budget package does not give councils any certainty over funding for the short to medium term...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Be more than just good at your job
12 February 2020
Nicola McCoy Brown says that while she hadn’t reached her third decade of work ‘without knowing t...
FINANCE
Scottish councils' improvements 'stalling'
By Martin Ford | 31 January 2020
Spending on culture and leisure, economic development, and roads all fell by around a quarter las...
WHITEHALL
NAO to probe one-off Government funding pots
By Dan Peters | 27 January 2020
The National Audit Office (NAO) is to probe the effect of the Government’s shift towards one-off ...
EDUCATION
'We must do more than tinker at the edges'
By Phil Norrey | 09 January 2020
The system needs a truly sustainable multi-year financial settlement to ensure children and young...
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Group Leader- Planning Policy and Strategy
£54,495 to £58,462
As the Planning Policy and Strategy Group Leader, you will have specific responsibility for directing and overall management Apply for this job
Senior School Quality Assurance Officer (SEND Inclusion Lead)
Band SS2 (£80,840 - £87,330)
This is an exciting opportunity to join Manchester's senior education leadership team at a pivotal moment. Apply for this job
Service Director - Education and Skills
£98, 135 - £113,630
A pivotal role at the heart of our improvement journey. Apply for this job
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