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DIGITAL
How digital innovation can aid new partnerships
By Sam Clayden | 31 January 2018
With council merger, combined authority and joint management plans especially active in the South...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
An alternative commissioning model
By Andrew Rome | 31 January 2018
High cost residential care for children is a major source of financial difficulties for local aut...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Rotherham: a place that needed good news
By Heather Jameson | 29 January 2018
Rotherham MBC has finally achieved a positive Ofsted rating. The council is now trying to turn ar...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Norfolk CC is back on the march
By Sam Clayden | 24 January 2018
After five years as an ‘inadequate’ authority, Norfolk CC’s children’s services have seen a turna...
EUROPEAN UNION
Storm clouds gather over the sector
By Michael Burton | 16 January 2018
A wave of reports last month on the impact of Brexit on local government signals its rise on the ...
HEALTH
The fall of the tri-borough
By Dan Peters | 16 January 2018
Dan Peters looks back at the events leading to the collapse of the tri-borough and asks how the t...
FINANCE
'The finance system is broken beyond the next few years'
By Heather Jameson | 11 January 2018
With the provisional local government finance settlement published so late in the day before Chri...
FINANCE
A leap into the unknown
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017
Sam Clayden guides us through the biggest events of a tumultuous year.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A response to the Industrial Strategy white paper
By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2017
Shaping the Industrial Strategy is among the most pressing challenges facing local authority lead...
FINANCE
Budget that gives no one any certainty
By Dan Corry | 29 November 2017
We don’t have a stable situation and things will have to change, writes Dan Corry, as he dissect...
Director of Education and Inclusion
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Across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales, our councils are doing something genuinely different. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- Whitehall looking to collaborate with councils on cohesion
- LCN chair: CCN existence 'illogical'
Director of Education and Inclusion
£120,901
Premium jobAs we move into a new era built on the strengths and ambition of our borough, we are seeking an outstanding Director of Education... Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Network Co-ordination)
£53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobWe are looking for an enthusiastic and highly driven candidate to join our Highways Asset Management team at Calderdale Council. Apply for this job
Joint Chief Planning Officer
£85,456 - £92,027
Across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales, our councils are doing something genuinely different. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- Whitehall looking to collaborate with councils on cohesion
- LCN chair: CCN existence 'illogical'
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