Author Profile
Heather Jameson
Heather Jameson is editor of The MJ, the leading weekly local government title for chief executives and senior managers, and of www.TheMJ.co.uk.
She is a regular speaker at both local government events and is co-host of the podcast Our World is Local.
Heather was a member of the Councillors’ Commission, chaired by Professor Colin Copus of De Montfort University, and is a passionate advocate of local government.
Articles by Heather Jameson
Accommodating asylum-seekers has become a new local government capacity challenge as a recession ...
New Welsh secretary Robert Buckland has spoken out against ‘punitive’ plans to charge more counci...
Councils face a return to the darkest days of austerity as a triple whammy of pay rises, inflatio...
A week on from the local government employers’ pay offer and the full impact on hard-up councils ...
Unison has vowed to consult its members on the flat rate pay rise offered to all council staff.
Refuse workers in Bexley LBC have called a temporary halt to strikes while pay negotiations are o...
The financial stability of Liverpool City Council is still a risk, according to an interim report...
The chief executive of Northumberland Council is set to step down on ill health grounds, just wee...
Heather Jameson says creating an atmosphere where the only option for maintaining your pay level ...
Council staff exit payments have plummeted since 2014-15 when they hit more than half a billion p...
