Title
BUSINESS
Calls to end Trafford-Amey joint venture following investigation
By Martin Ford | 13 February 2019
Trafford MBC has been urged to end its joint venture contract with Amey over ‘poor performance’.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils caught in the middle
By Bob Neill | 13 February 2019
Bob Neill says nailing down a robust framework to strengthen scrutiny is an essential part of the...
SCRUTINY
Risk and commercialisation: Why scrutiny matters
By Ed Hammond | 01 February 2019
Early engagement and streamlining of scrutiny into commercialisation decisions will provide scrut...
SCRUTINY
Time to take stock?
08 January 2019
Diary is well aware of the important job scrutiny councillors do in this crucial time for the sec...
SCRUTINY
More scrutiny in local government?
By Benoit Guerin | 19 December 2018
Benoit Guerin explains why Government should review the case for setting up local Public Accounts...
WHITEHALL
Scrutiny chief in failure warning
By Dan Peters | 10 December 2018
Failure in local government is likely to become more prevalent in the years ahead due to looming ...
WHITEHALL
Scrutiny can reduce Government intervention risk - Kerslake
By Dan Peters | 04 December 2018
Rishi Sunak has called for scrutiny to receive a ‘strong commitment from the top’ of councils ami...
WHITEHALL
Researchers to look at '200-mile long Whitehall screwdriver'
By MJ reporter | 25 October 2018
Experts have laid out their plans to examine whether the Government’s 20-year-old intervention re...
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY
Lessons from 'failure'
By Ed Hammond | 24 October 2018
In the context of Northamptonshire’s failure and warnings of other councils on the edge of collap...
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The Cox report and its lessons for local government
19 October 2018
It’s time for local government to ask how it deals with poor behaviour in its own workplace in t...
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Director of Customer, Digital and Corporate Strategy
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