South Tyneside MBC has improved but there is a long way to go on governance and councillor behaviour, a peer review has found.
The council was beset by issues, leading to former leader Iain Malcolm stepping down amid a bullying probe in 2020 just weeks after the departure of former chief executive Martin Swales.
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