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REORGANISATION

Delivering a new culture in a merged council

Heather Jameson talks to Adrianna Partridge about the challenges of taking on the top job at local authorities that have merged – a subject top of the agenda amid sweeping reorganisation across the sector

(c) South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse DCs

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils may be hurtling towards local government reorganisation (LGR), but merging authorities is not a new experience. The pair shared services in 2007 before becoming fully merged in 2014.

It was a gradual shift – as opposed to the breakneck pace of the current round of LGR – but they have made it work.

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