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Tracy Bingham

Tracy Bingham

Tracy Bingham is strategic director (corporate resources) at South Derbyshire DC

Articles by Tracy Bingham

Designing a better framework for public scrutiny

By Tracy Bingham | 08 May 2025

For participation and oversight over council finances, we need to get behind Research for Action'...

Let's plant new bulbs to bloom stronger

By Tracy Bingham | 28 March 2025

Funding reform and reorganisation have a role, but a real-terms sector funding injection is also ...

Clarify the costs

By Tracy Bingham | 12 February 2025

To be the best they can be, the new unitary councils should be designed with up-to-date assessmen...

Facing the finance shake-up

By By Tracy Bingham | 11 December 2024

It has been two weeks since the Local Government Finance Policy Statement was published and shake...

Healthy relationships will enable us to co-design credible solutions

By Tracy Bingham | 30 October 2024

Tracy Bingham says she is optimistic about the return on investment the current examples of relat...

How to unleash a new generation of council housing

By Tracy Bingham | 06 August 2024

There are financial pressures mounting on the Housing Revenue Account that could hold councils ba...

Highlighting the barriers to productivity

By Tracy Bingham | 18 June 2024

With productivity plans being finalised in councils country-wide, Tracy Bingham says she is 'look...

Sort out housing through invest-to-save

By Tracy Bingham | 07 May 2024

As the sector's macro financial dilemma becomes more widely and better understood, so too should ...

Local government: One sector ready for the challenge

By Tracy Bingham | 02 April 2024

While there’s still so much uncertainty around local government, it is positive to be thinking ah...

Reform's opportunities and threats

By Tracy Bingham | 13 February 2024

Some areas of reform could present as a financial threat for some councils, but be the opposite f...