Mendip and South Somerset DCs have approved plans for their senior management teams to formally work together. The councils will create a joint transformation board, with members of both teams, to look at ways of joining up services and sharing best practice. Mendip chief executive, David Thomson, said: ‘Our two management boards will initially come together to work through practical ways of assisting each other with any capacity issues, see where shared services can be achieved, and see where we can jointly work together on initiatives.' And South Somerset chief executive, Phil Dolan, added: ‘It will save a great deal of duplication to have one team working to the same brief in two authorities.' The leader of South Somerset DC, Tim Carroll, said he had ‘grave reservations' about Somerset CC's plans for unitary status. ‘A single, supersized Somerset CC is simply too big, and carries too many disadvantages for our residents,' he said. A business case for merging senior management teams at Adur DC and Worthing BC is expected to be published next month.
