A tale of two cities

Mike Bennett outlines how centre and sector-led intervention point the way to strategies for successful performance turnarounds.

By Mike Bennett | 19 June 2014

In April 2010 secretary of state John Denham announced that the government was intervening in Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council due to ‘gross' failures.

The subsequent direction removed the authority's right to appoint senior posts and imposed Commissioners with the power to overrule council decisions.

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