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The level of general fund reserve is sacrosanct

By By Tracie Langley | 13 November 2024

Tracie Langley says she is 'glad my final budget has made it over the line with the general fund ...

Finding hope in public sector collaboration

By Tracie Langley | 04 October 2024

As opportunities to make efficiencies become more scarce, joining up service offers across the pu...

Roll on the robots

By Tracie Langley | 03 July 2024

Improving productivity everywhere involves optimising resource use to deliver better outcomes for...

Time is money

By Tracie Langley | 21 May 2024

As construction costs remain high efforts to improve the speed of decison-making and staff proces...

Bridging the budget gap

By Tracie Langley | 10 April 2024

We haven’t even closed down the 2023-24 accounts yet and we are already starting to plan our 2025...

Going with the flow

By Tracie Langley | 17 January 2024

Tracie Langley looks at how a renewed focus on productivity and ‘flow’ methodologies can help mak...

Flying the flag for local government work

By Tracie Langley | 15 November 2023

Local government is an amazing place to work, says Tracie Langley. 'We do some brilliant things w...

Financial sustainability is never about clever financial mechanisms

By Tracie Langley | 03 October 2023

Instead of waiting until it’s too late, Cornwall Council has stood up the senior officer Financia...

Keeping the hares in their bushes

By Tracie Langley | 16 August 2023

Cornwall Council's biggest challenge will be to ensure the data used by the DLUHC to create the c...

A week in the life of a section 151 officer

By Tracie Langley | 04 July 2023

Tracie Langley has had a technically challenging and fulfilling week, 'but I am feeling the full ...