Author Profile
Heather Jameson
Heather Jameson is editor of The MJ, the leading weekly local government title for chief executives and senior managers, and of www.TheMJ.co.uk.
She is a regular speaker at both local government events and is co-host of the podcast Our World is Local.
Heather was a member of the Councillors’ Commission, chaired by Professor Colin Copus of De Montfort University, and is a passionate advocate of local government.
Articles by Heather Jameson
The Government will need to scrap its funding reforms, significantly boost top-ups or centralise ...
There is a cacophony of voices calling for local government finance reform. Heather Jameson sugge...
Council tax is ‘outdated and regressive,’ and the Government should consider scrapping it in favo...
Sir Robin Wales has been deselected as the Mayoral candidate for Newham LBC.
Local government experts have warned that some councils will face an ‘immediate and deepening fin...
Council finances were offered little respite in chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement.
The team brought in to turn around Birmingham has vowed to work more closely with the council.
Redbridge LBC pays its female staff more than their male counterparts, an audit of staff salary h...
Despite the initial rhetoric around ‘nimby’ councils’ planning decisions, Theresa May’s housing a...
The latest figures from the Institute of Fiscal Studies highlight the huge complexities of implem...
