Jun 03, 2024 Local authority companies – Governance health-check By Matt Marsh Preparing for the annual governance statement is a good time for local authorities to undertake a governance health-check of their...
Jan 23, 2024 Local authority companies: dissolution v dormancy By Matt Marsh In exercising its shareholder or member function in respect of a subsidiary company a local authority will be assessing the performance...
Jun 26, 2023 Exercising the shareholder function in local authority companies By Matt Marsh Fundamentally, a local authority’s role as the shareholder of its company is to safeguard the public money the local authority has in it...
Oct 26, 2022 2022 - The year of the u-turn? CSPL asks levelling up secretary to reconsider council powers to tackle member bad behaviour By Matt Marsh Following what seems like weeks of government u-turns, the committee on standards in public life (CSPL) has urged the Government to make...