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Mark Rogers

Mark Rogers

Mark Rogers is chief executive of Birmingham City Council and chair of SOLACE

Articles by Mark Rogers

What role for councils after Paris?

By Mark Rogers | 19 November 2015

Mark Rogers considers how local government is in a unique position to deal with the national resp...

Boys don't cry

By Mark Rogers | 20 October 2015

Mark Rogers reflects on how life lessons have affected his outlook on local government. Building ...

Keeping it real

By Mark Rogers | 06 October 2015

SOLACE president Mark Rogers explains to delegates at its annual summit why local government must...

Standing at the sky's edge

By Mark Rogers | 22 September 2015

Mark Rogers considers the financial precipice facing local government and asks what to do about s...

Local government is missing important trick

By Mark Rogers | 18 August 2015

Mark Rogers says devolution has pitched council against council and LEP against LEP while central...

Bill of bad omens

By Mark Rogers | 22 July 2015

There is an urgent need for more homes and councils should be given the flexibility to provide th...

An encouraging outcome

By Mark Rogers | 01 July 2015

Mark Rogers introduces a new care service co-commissioned by Birmingham City Council.

No excuses and no apologies

By Mark Rogers | 24 June 2015

One of the most endearing attributes of the people I admire most is their natural propensity to g...

Friends of mine

By Mark Rogers | 26 May 2015

This partnership malarkey is becoming too complicated for a simple soul like me who just wants to...

Don't be an App

By Mark Rogers | 28 April 2015

We need to recognise that the scale and pace of change are conspiring unkindly to expose our buil...