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FINANCE
On the road to improvement
22 April 2024
Northumberland Council’s peer review, following a hard-hitting review of governance, shows the lo...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Devolution needs to be more 'Kevin Keegan'
By Henry Kippin | 22 April 2024
If the UK wants to emerge from its ‘odd decade’ into a better place, it must use devolution to bo...
IMPROVEMENT
Steering a way through the AI challenge
By Caroline Green | 22 April 2024
AI offers so much for adult social care practice, but for all the potential, there are plenty of ...
PAY
TPA analysis of senior local government pay is relentlessly unsophisticated
By Graeme McDonald | 22 April 2024
Graeme McDonald says: 'Perhaps the diminishing number of national news outlets covering the TPA’s...
HEALTH
There's real value in our arts
22 April 2024
Council support for arts and culture is at serious risk amid the latest funding crisis. But we mu...
COUNCILLORS
Ready or not?
19 April 2024
As a new regulatory regime gets underway for social housing, Peter Hubbard and Claire Ward offer ...
WHITEHALL
Ministers in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
By Heather Jameson | 16 April 2024
The letter on councils’ productivity, sent by local government minister Simon Hoare this week, bo...
FINANCE
We need to measure prevention spend
By Rob Whiteman | 16 April 2024
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy will seek to answer how much are we cur...
WHITEHALL
Help councils unlock their true power
16 April 2024
With LGA plans for a local government White Paper gathering pace, Lord Bichard reiterates the imp...
FINANCE
The will to win in Wilts
16 April 2024
Wiltshire Council was the setting for the latest round of the Local Government Challenge, which f...
Director of Digital, Data and Technology
£139,000 per annum
Shape the future of a digitally enabled borough Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care Commissioning
£130,000 per annum
Transforming outcomes through integrated commissioning Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care
£145,000 per annum
Leading innovative, strengths-based social care that enables residents to live fulfilling and independent lives Apply for this job
- April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
- Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced
- Budget 2026: High streets to benefit from greater business rates relief
- Budget 2026: Chancellor confirms £285m Good Growth funding
- Budget 2026: Healey's first Budget delivers fiscal devo vision
Director of Digital, Data and Technology
£139,000 per annum
Shape the future of a digitally enabled borough Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care Commissioning
£130,000 per annum
Transforming outcomes through integrated commissioning Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care
£145,000 per annum
Leading innovative, strengths-based social care that enables residents to live fulfilling and independent lives Apply for this job
- April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
- Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced
- Budget 2026: High streets to benefit from greater business rates relief
- Budget 2026: Chancellor confirms £285m Good Growth funding
- Budget 2026: Healey's first Budget delivers fiscal devo vision
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