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SOLACE
Newcastle chief to become new Solace president
By Paul Marinko | 21 October 2026
Newcastle City Council chief executive Pam Smith has been announced as the next president of Solace, the body representing local authority bosses and senior managers.
SOLACE
EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Solace president issues rewiring the state warning
By Paul Marinko | 21 October 2026
Solace chief urges local government to ‘seize the moment’ amid concerns of divisions derailing th...
PEOPLE
London borough chief to step down
By Martin Ford | 19 October 2026
Sharon Lea is to step down as chief executive of Hammersmith & Fulham LBC.
FINANCE
Call for long-term EFS plan
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
The Government must turn exceptional financial support (EFS) into a ‘managed recovery regime rath...
ANGELA RAYNER
Rayner expected to send in commissioners to Bedford BC
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Communities secretary Angela Rayner has indicated that the Government is minded to appoint commis...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
By Dan Peters | 14 October 2026
Council chief executives have warned Whitehall that local authorities must be treated as equal pa...
HR
Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
By Paul Marinko | 12 October 2026
Manchester City Council’s chief executive has said the authority ‘won’t rest’ until ‘deeply conce...
PEOPLE
Aberdeen appoints chief executive
By Martin Ford | 12 October 2026
Aberdeen City Council has appointed Andy MacDonald as its chief executive.
POLICY AND POLITICS
'A denial of democracy'
By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026
Commissioner-led intervention is ‘problematic’ and a ‘denial of local democracy’, the chief execu...
TECHNOLOGY
EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall 'exploring' using AI to help intervention decisions
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2026
Whitehall is ‘exploring’ the use of AI to help assess councils against the key risk indicators fo...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Work on Whitehall tensions tool slows under Burnham
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2026
Work on a Whitehall tool to track community tensions has slowed since the change of Prime Ministe...
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