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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
SOLACE Summit: Time to act to avoid elections 'car crash'
By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015
A council chief executive has issued a call to arms for her colleagues to put forward changes to ...
WHITEHALL
SOLACE Summit: Rates reforms could put sector in 'straitjacket'
By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015
The Society of Local Authority Chief Executive’s finance policy spokesman has suggested chancello...
WHITEHALL
SOLACE Summit: Clarke calls for unitary revolution
By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015
Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has called for all local authorities to become unitaries.
WHITEHALL
SOLACE Summit: Rogers fed up being treated like child
By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015
The president of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) has called for a ‘new p...
WHITEHALL
SOLACE Summit: £11bn of extra responsibilities for councils
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2015
Local government will have to take on £11bn of additional responsibilities from Whitehall in retu...
WHITEHALL
Calls to record child spending costs 'ignored'
07 October 2015
Urgent calls from the sector for Whitehall to improve the comparison and recording of children’s ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Rates revolution
By Heather Jameson | 06 October 2015
Plans to return 100% of business rates to local government are ‘little more than a back of the en...
FINANCE
Keeping it real
By Mark Rogers | 06 October 2015
SOLACE president Mark Rogers explains to delegates at its annual summit why local government must...
FINANCE
Lost in translation?
By Graeme McDonald | 06 October 2015
SOLACE director Graeme McDonald points out how the USA views its councils, the similarities and t...
BUSINESS
Social innovation as a strategic tool for local government leaders
By John Rene Keller Lauritzen | 30 September 2015
John René Keller Lauritzen argues that councils must be both brave and open, and the only way to ...
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Corporate Director of Children’s Services
Competitive Salary
You will be joining a council that is fully committed to improvement and where delivering the best start in life for children and young people Apply for this job
Fire Safety Lead
£53,051- £57,372 per annum
Working closely with a broader compliance team, you will lead on the management and assurance of fire safety across the Council's estate. Apply for this job
Quantity Surveyor
£40,444 - £43,149 per annum + £4,370.75 Market supplement reviewed annually
Working within both the Major Works & Assets teams Apply for this job
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