EXCLUSIVE: Ex-minister gets role on strategic authority improvement board
PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-minister gets role on strategic authority improvement board

By Emily Twinch | 30 June 2025

Former Tory minister Dame Amanda Milling is expected to be appointed to a board tasked with helping ‘reset’ troubled Tees Valley combined authority, The MJ has learnt.

IMPROVEMENT

Peer review highlights 'inappropriate behaviour'

By Joe Lepper | 17 June 2025

More than 250 employees of Westminster City Council reported bullying or harassment at work in th...

IMPROVEMENT

Minister suggests commissioners needed for Croydon

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2025

Minister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissio...

HOUSING

'Councils have no excuse for housing failures'

By Neil Merrick | 05 June 2025

Councils have no excuse for failing to improve housing after a watchdog highlighted complaints ma...

LEADERSHIP

What to expect from the three types of chief executives

By Blair McPherson | 03 June 2025

Former council director Blair McPherson explains the three types of chief executives – turnaround...

DEVOLUTION

Bridging devolved divides

By Toby Savage | 21 May 2025

Reflecting on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s improvement journey, Elise Wil...

IMPROVEMENT

A mirror to success

By Mark Smith | 20 May 2025

The peer review process shows that Chippenham Town Council should be confident about what it achi...

PREVENTION

Prioritising prevention

By Cllr Beverley Egan | 07 May 2025

Cllr Beverley Egan looks at the actions for radical change emerging from the independent Essex Ca...

SOCIAL SERVICES

Housing 'key factor' in rising children's services costs

By Joe Lepper | 25 April 2025

Poor housing has emerged as a ‘key contributing factor’ in councils’ mounting bill for children i...

FINANCE

'Slow' improvement progress at Nottingham

By Dan Peters | 25 April 2025

Progress towards highly effective financial management capability at Nottingham City Council has ...

IMPROVEMENT

Improvement board concludes Liverpool 'well led'

By Neil Merrick | 14 April 2025

A nine-month investigation by an Improvement and Assurance Board (IAB) has concluded that Liverpo...

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