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REORGANISATION

LGR creates major challenges for the corporate services that many have reduced and pared back for years

Stephen Moir says corporate services are exactly the teams and services that will need protection during transition to new unitary councils, investment and additional capacity to balance working to create the future while ensuring existing sovereign councils can still operate.

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I'm writing this as the dust is settling following ministerial decisions about reorganisation outcomes for parts of the country being announced. he devil is in the detail and much comment and speculation has already happened about the decisions made – I'm not going to repeat those points.

Instead, I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect upon the impact of these decisions on the people in all the organisations concerned.

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