East Midlands Councils has said it plans to investigate the reasons why its member authorities have won only £5m of the £110m Government transformation funding. Executive director Stuart Young told The MJ he did not think the outcome was because the region’s councils were less ambitious or transformative.
He said: ‘We’ve got some cracking councils here. There are some really good examples of transformative programmes. There is a role for us.’
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