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Councillors fear pest issues amid discovery of colossal rat
05/08/2025 A vermin case involving a 22-inch rat found in a Normanby home has raised concerns about a council’s pest control management. |
Lambeth to slash senior management to help plug £84m funding gap
29/07/2025 Lambeth LBC has voted for a series of cost cutting measures including slashing senior management to plug a £84m funding gap identified through to 2029-30. |
Reform-led council plans to ‘scrutinise every penny’
30/06/2025 Reform UK council leader announces Lincolnshire County Council needs to rethink its service delivery to ensure sufficient savings. |
Reform-led council to bring social housing in-house
25/06/2025 West Northamptonshire Council's cabinet has voted to bring back in-house the management of 11,500 social homes. |
Local authority reclaims Blackpool Tower
05/06/2025 Blackpool Council has taken over management duties of Blackpool Tower, marking an ‘exciting new chapter for Blackpool’s tourism industry’. |
Matrix Workforce Management Solutions Appoints Andrew Curry as Client Engagement Director for Health and Social Care
09/04/2025 Matrix, a leader in Workforce Management Solutions, has announced the appointment of Andrew Curry as Client Engagement Director for Health and Social Care. |
Dudley to save £1.2m from restructure
27/01/2025 Dudley MBC is expected to save £1.2m from its senior management restructure, a meeting of the council's overview and scrutiny committee has been told. |
Charity regulator issues first warning to a council
02/09/2024 The Charity Commission has for the first time issued a local authority with an official warning for failing to properly manage its charities. |
Council to announce chief after capacity criticism
15/04/2024 East Devon DC is hoping to announce its new chief executive early next month after peers said senior level capacity was currently ‘limited’. |
'Culture of mistrust' found at Newham
04/03/2024 Newham LBC’s chief executive has vowed to tackle the ‘culture of mistrust’ among politicians and officers laid bare by a critical peer review. |
Council probe leads officers to ‘step back’
19/02/2024 Two senior Guildford and Waverley officers have agreed to temporarily ‘step back’ from their roles amid intensifying investigations into housing maintenance contracts. |
Study reveals ‘worrying’ state of local government leadership
25/01/2024 Just over half of council leaders and managers believe their local authority isn’t ensuring accountability for failure, an alarming new study has revealed. |
Council urged to address low reserves
12/06/2023 Senior managers at Eastbourne BC must address the council’s low levels of reserves given current cost pressures within sector, an LGA-led review has warned. |
Pension figures lobbying over active management
08/06/2023 Council pension figures are lobbying for active management in case the Treasury renews pressure on the scheme’s funds to use cheaper passive investment. |
Long-buried report reveals 'organisational dysfunction'
03/10/2022 ‘Organisational dysfunction at the most senior level’ of Croydon LBC has been laid bare in a long-buried report leaked to The MJ. |
Oxfordshire councils look to scrap partnership
18/01/2022 Oxfordshire County Council and Cherwell District Council have announced they are looking to end their formal partnership. |
Management team split for Hampshire councils
06/01/2022 East Hampshire DC and Havant BC will establish their own management teams after a 12-year partnership, the councils have announced. |
Commissioners to monitor Slough improvement plan
26/10/2021 Mismanagement and a dysfunctional culture contributed to Slough Council’s financial meltdown, two Government-ordered reviews have concluded. |
Councils in talks over single workforce
03/09/2020 Havant BC and East Hampshire DC are in talks over creating a single flexible workforce. |
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New management model with no chief approved
25/07/2019 Redcar and Cleveland BC hopes to save about £220,000 per year after scrapping its chief executive role as part of a new management model. |
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Call for leader to quit after 'repeated failures'
05/06/2019 Shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne has called for Northamptonshire CC leader, Matt Golby, to quit after ‘repeated failures’ in the council’s children’s services. |
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'Slow progress' two years after inadequate judgement
24/05/2019 Gloucestershire CC is making ‘slow progress’ in improving its services for its children and young people two years after it was judged inadequate, Ofsted has found. |
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Review finds lack of due diligence over council's commercial workspace project
21/03/2019 King’s Lynn & West Norfolk BC should ‘build on the lessons learned’ from the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial workspace, the council’s chief executive has said. |
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Newham to improve financial management after £9m fraud allegations
16/01/2019 The Mayor of Newham has announced plans to set up a commission to advise the council on how to ‘become a beacon of good practice’ in its financial management. |
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Putting people at the heart of asset management plans
17/12/2018 A growing role for facilities management and futuristic workplaces were highlights at the Assets & Estates Management Conference. Mark Whitehead reports |
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Parking management worth £3.6bn, London boroughs say
03/10/2018 London’s boroughs have made the business case for their parking management, with a report that estimates it is worth £3.58bn per year to the capital’s economy. |
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Pared-down senior management would deliver 'significant savings' in Nottinghamshire
05/09/2018 A single senior management team for a new Nottinghamshire unitary would deliver ‘significant savings’ and improve service quality, the county council’s leader has claimed. |
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Children's services blow for new chiefs
16/05/2018 Surrey CC’s children’s services are still inadequate, according to Ofsted – three years after they received the same grade. |
