Best value notice at BCP, Oflog & social care and special guest Jonathan Werran

08/10/23 • 30 min

This week, deputy editor Martin George sits down with editor Sarah Calkin and senior reporter Megan Kenyon to discuss the best value notice issued to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, the regulation of social care and life after Leps, with Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran.

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Struggling councils, ULEZ announcement and a special guest

This week, deputy editor Martin George sits down with news editor Kirsty Weakley and reporter Kwame Boakye to discuss councils that are struggling financially, last week's ULEZ announcement.

Martin also speaks to Adam Lent, chief executive of New Local, about his views on green issues in politics.

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Antisocial behaviour, Woking’s borrowing and the IFS’s Kate Ogden on outdated funding models

This week deputy editor Martin George is joined by senior reporter Megan Kenyon and head of content Kirsty Weakley to discuss whether councils are doing enough to deal with antisocial behaviour.

They also talk about councils lending money to Woking, even after its financial difficulties began to emerge.

Later in the podcast Kirsty is joined by Kate Ogden, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, to share the findings of some research about how well local government funding is distributed.

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