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INTERVENTION
Reed steps up Tower Hamlets intervention
By Joe Lepper | 20 January 2026
The Government is stepping up its intervention in the running of Tower Hamlets LBC amid fresh doubts around its ability to improve.
FINANCE
EFS: Useful tool, not an end state
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 15 January 2026
Applying for Exceptional Financial Support? February could mark a turning point, as more councils...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Unite accuses Birmingham CC leaders of misleading scrutiny committee
By William Eichler | 14 January 2026
Unite has accused Birmingham City Council’s lead commissioner and managing director of misleading...
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...
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...
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