Scrutiny

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...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Mayor defends close relationship between LEP and combined authority

By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 March 2018

The mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) has defended the autho...

FINANCE

'Whiteman has brought energy to leadership team'

By Dan Peters | 02 March 2018

Guildford BC’s new managing director has ‘settled into the role well’ and has brought ‘energy’ to...

FINANCE

Councils not held to account for commissioning social care, claims MP

By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 March 2018

Local authorities are not being held to account for the way they spend Government money on social...

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