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Tracy Bingham

Tracy Bingham

Tracy Bingham is strategic director (corporate resources) at South Derbyshire DC

Articles by Tracy Bingham

Facing the finance shake-up

By By Tracy Bingham | 11 December 2024

It has been two weeks since the Local Government Finance Policy Statement was published and shake...

Healthy relationships will enable us to co-design credible solutions

By Tracy Bingham | 30 October 2024

Tracy Bingham says she is optimistic about the return on investment the current examples of relat...

How to unleash a new generation of council housing

By Tracy Bingham | 06 August 2024

There are financial pressures mounting on the Housing Revenue Account that could hold councils ba...

Highlighting the barriers to productivity

By Tracy Bingham | 18 June 2024

With productivity plans being finalised in councils country-wide, Tracy Bingham says she is 'look...

Sort out housing through invest-to-save

By Tracy Bingham | 07 May 2024

As the sector's macro financial dilemma becomes more widely and better understood, so too should ...

Local government: One sector ready for the challenge

By Tracy Bingham | 02 April 2024

While there’s still so much uncertainty around local government, it is positive to be thinking ah...

Reform's opportunities and threats

By Tracy Bingham | 13 February 2024

Some areas of reform could present as a financial threat for some councils, but be the opposite f...

The prospect of a decent settlement has since been dashed

By Tracy Bingham | 13 December 2023

Most councils will have to make full use of the limited capacity within the council tax referendu...

Let there be fireworks on funding

By Tracy Bingham | 31 October 2023

As we look towards this month’s Autumn Statement, it is clear the sector needs it and the settlem...

Solving the financial unsustainability problem

By Tracy Bingham | 19 September 2023

The elephant in the room that is unsustainable council finances can no longer be ignored, so what...