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Adele Taylor

Adele Taylor

Adele Taylor is interim executive director of finance and Governance at Cherwell and South Northamptonshire

Articles by Adele Taylor

Finance chiefs should stress test their professional networks

By Adele Taylor | 13 September 2023

As more councils declare their potential financial distress, no one person is going to have all t...

Audit and governance is the conscience of the council

By Adele Taylor | 13 June 2023

The remit of the audit and governance committee is much more than the debits and credits of the s...

Getting out of the mire

By Adele Taylor | 02 May 2023

Adele Taylor's new authority is in intervention. 'You don’t often get the chance to rip things ap...

Stepping up in Slough

By Adele Taylor | 21 March 2023

As Adele Taylor steps into the new role of executive director for finance and commercial at strug...

Rigour around regular budget management is crucial

By Adele Taylor | 08 February 2023

Rigour around regular budget management might feel like a basic but it is crucial to an organisat...

Where is the co-design between local and central Government happening?

By Adele Taylor | 07 December 2022

The centre and the local working together 'must be in all our best interests rather than us waiti...

We need to get across the story of the real impact of 'trimming fat'

By Adele Taylor | 26 October 2022

Adele Taylor is concerned about how far away the decision-makers are from the impact on the local...

We need more information on council finances

By Adele Taylor | 14 September 2022

Now that political roles are settled Adele Taylor is hoping we will start to see a rush of inform...

Wrestling with uncertainty on budget setting

By Adele Taylor | 03 August 2022

Adele Taylor says one key question for the Conservative leadership contenders is: ‘When will you ...

Finance is not the be-all and end-all of tackling some 'wicked' issues

By Adele Taylor | 21 June 2022

Adele Taylor travelled to Sierra Leone to run her first marathon, and in visiting projects there ...