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Governance concerns prompt best value notice for Tees Valley

04/04/2025

The Government has issued Tees Valley Combined Authority with a best value notice due to concerns over governance and culture.

Spelthorne faces Government intervention

17/03/2025

Ministers are minded to appoint commissioners to oversee the running of Spelthorne BC.

Council’s senior management ‘unaware’ of £13.5m overspend

23/01/2025

Guildford BC's senior management were ‘unaware’ of a multi-million-pound overspend but should have noticed a series of ‘red flags’, investigation concludes.

Envoys sent in to Tower Hamlets

23/01/2025

Local government minister Jim McMahon has sent three envoys in to improve Tower Hamlets LBC following last year's Best Value inspection.

Councils’ Best Value notices lifted

20/12/2024

Best Value notices issued to Runnymede and Eastleigh borough councils will not be renewed despite ongoing concern about their ‘significant’ debts.

Government parachutes in envoys to oversee Tower Hamlets LBC

12/11/2024

Government envoys will oversee the management of Tower Hamlets LBC after inspectors found a ‘toxic' environment was stopping the council ‘moving forward'.

Woking's historic governance arrangements 'wholly inadequate'

05/11/2024

A report into debt-stricken Woking BC has concluded the borough's governance arrangements and decision-making processes were ‘wholly inadequate'.

Intervention at Slough set to be extended

23/10/2024

Slough Council is facing an extension to Government intervention due to ‘volatility' in its finances.

Tower Hamlets begins inspection fightback

26/09/2024

Best Value inspectors sent into Tower Hamlets LBC have been personally threatened with legal action by the council, The MJ understands.

Best Value Notices lifted for three authorities

10/09/2024

Three authorities are no longer operating under Best Value Notices, the Government has confirmed.

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