Addressing cultural and governance failings in local authorities: lessons from recent interventions
Lessons about local authority culture and governance that can be learned from recent statutory and non-statutory interventions.
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This publication now been superseded by the most recent evaluation and lessons learnt from best value interventions publication covering the period 2020-25.
Based on our experience of supporting and, sometimes, intervening in local authorities experiencing difficulties, it has become clear that culture and governance at a local authority is key to its success or failure.
This guide sets out what lessons can be learned about culture and governance and how to improve it from the experience of statutory and non-statutory interventions at local authorities since 2010.
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Corrected factual error at point 3.5
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First published.