Scrutiny

By Hiba Mahamadi | 14 May 2018

Lancashire CC is considering closer collaboration with the NHS to avoid duplicating service provi...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Calls for a new Audit Commission are an affront to localism

By Ian Miller | 25 April 2018

Ian Miller rejects recent calls for the reinvention of the Audit Commission.

WHITEHALL

Chief sought answers from building society over fraud

By Mark Conrad | 18 April 2018

Dundee City Council’s chief executive sought assurances over anti-money laundering practices from...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Cheshire East: Investigation committee chair steps down

By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 April 2018

The chair of the committee that suspended three top officers at Cheshire East Council last year h...

WHITEHALL

Government crackdown amid confusion

10 April 2018

Councils fear they could fall victim to a Government crackdown amid continuing confusion a year o...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

New guide to improve member-officer relations

By Mark Conrad | 05 April 2018

Cheshire East Council has responded to concerns about member-officer relations by producing a new...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Our peer challenge experience

By Mike Harden | 03 April 2018

Mike Harden breaks down the key learning from Knowsley MBC's recent peer challenge.

Donna Hall: Let's bring back the Audit Commission

By Donna Hall | 28 March 2018

Donna Hall believes Northamptonshire CC’s situation and the changing nature of chief executives’ ...

AUDIT

The Audit Commission needed its wings clipped but abolition was not the answer

By Andy Sawford | 28 March 2018

Northamptonshire CC’s woes have been fuelled by a real-time experiment that failed, writes Andy S...

BUSINESS

Government oversight of LEPs not good enough, MPs say

By Hiba Mahamadi | 16 March 2018

The Public Accounts Committee has stressed its lack of faith in the Government’s oversight of loc...

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