Evie Clutton

Grim news from Birmingham today. City Council has announced cuts to deal with effective insolvency notice. Includes: -sale of £750m of assets -cuts of to public services by £300m over two years -21% rise in Council Tax -dimming street lights -fortnightly bin collections

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This from @MTBracken in today’s ⁦@FT⁩ 👇

Finally an intelligent debate about VAR

The Premier League table of tough places to go

Worth a read not just if you care about Liverpool but for the issues it addresses that will be familiar to so many places and public servants. Liverpool Strategic Futures Advisory Panel: Interim report​ - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/pub…

New manager bounce

Our new report has found the largest independent providers of children’s social care made profits of over £300 million last year. With rising financial pressures in children’s services, we’re calling for greater financial oversight of these providers.⬇️ local.gov.uk/about/news/big…

@JackTShaw Wow

According to the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, Sarah Healey, high-profile failures at local authorities are undermining the prospect of further devolution: lgcplus.com/politics/devol…

He’s not exactly pulling up any trees

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@pydanny 🥳

The release of dj-notebook 0.4.0 has some really handy new features powered by textualize/rich, chrisdev/django-pandas, mermaidjs, and the power of collaboration. dj-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usag…

Pretty sure I now only hang out on twitter for Bryan’s Gunn

New blog! Wow! Exciting! This one's about the skills that are most needed in local government right now - part 1 (leadership) link.medium.com/KCFzQF6uXCb

@RobParsonsNorth @JackTShaw You should be able to find the data you're after here: oflog.data.gov.uk/finance?show_s… :)

@JackTShaw This is very interesting Jack! I don't suppose you know where Kirklees and Middlesbrough (who've both reported financial difficulties of late) rank on this list?

Birmingham City Council was the seventh local authority to issue a Section 114 since 2020 - and that doesn't include the authorities that issued capitalisation directions. That includes Warrington, which has the highest debt as a proportion of its core spending power:

Is your football club a massive football club?

The game, the Spanish players deserve more, no players should have to endure this. It’s unacceptable, and also laughable that these men still are allowed so much power. @Jennihermoso we are all with you ❤️

One of the things over the past weeks that has struck me is how often it is left to women in football to kick up a fuss. Why won’t men in football who can see things happening that they privately disagree with use their platforms?

This.

A performance on the world stage, but no shirt 👕 Beth Mead has criticised Nike's decision not to sell goalkeeper jerseys, after Mary Earps' latest performances! 🧤 #BBCFootball