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INTERVENTION
EXCLUSIVE: Tower Hamlets improving but risk of 'optimism bias'
By Paul Marinko | 04 December 2025
Tower Hamlets LBC has improved and continues to show ‘strong financial management’ but a tendency toward ‘optimism bias’ remains, according to a sector-led progress review.
INTERVENTION
Strikes 'delaying' Birmingham's financial recovery
By Martin Ford | 02 December 2025
Ongoing strikes by bin workers at Birmingham City Council have held back efforts to recover from ...
SOCIAL CARE
The cost of improvement in children's social care
By William Burns | 02 December 2025
William Burns says that improvement to children’s social care is both complex, costly and long te...
INTERVENTION
Council at risk of MHCLG intervention backs urgent reforms
By William Eichler | 21 November 2025
Isle of Wight Council has backed urgent reforms after an independent report warned it risked Gove...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Birmingham s114 notice comes under fresh scrutiny
By Izzy Lepone | 03 November 2025
Financial experts have called for a public inquiry into Birmingham City Council’s decision to iss...
INTERVENTION
Counting the cost of local government failure
By Heather Jameson | 30 October 2025
Reflecting on the bailout figure announced by the Government as it unveiled plans for two new uni...
INTERVENTION
Our World is Local: Theresa Grant talks LGR and intervention
27 October 2025
The formidable Theresa Grant shares unflinching insights into reorganisation, intervention and lo...
REORGANISATION
Unpicking the Spelthorne strategy
By Heather Jameson | 23 October 2025
As the decision on reorganisation in Surrey is delayed, Spelthorne BC chief executive Daniel Moua...
INTERVENTION
Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
16 October 2025
Rishi Shori sets out Birmingham City Council’s history of intervention and the three ingredients ...
INTERVENTION
How not to damage democracy
By Philip Whiteman | 16 October 2025
Jason Lowther, Paul Joyce and Philip Whiteman look at the lessons from previous models of local g...
FINANCE
Common failures among EFS recipients uncovered
By Martin Ford | 22 September 2025
The most common failings plunging councils into financial crisis have been laid out in analysis p...
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