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The Council Company Network heard from another well established council company, Norse Commercial Services, part of the Norse Group. Stuart McWilliam, General Council and Company Secretary, gave an assessment of some of the reasons for the significant growth of the company formed by Norfolk County Council. An almost franchise style model involved working with large numbers of other councils on […]

At the first online meeting of the newly established Council Company Network, there were presentations from one well established council company the South West Audit Partnership (SWAP) and one younger company Medway Development Company (MDC). Chris Gunn, CEO of SWAP gave a history of the company which offered auditing services to councils, and focussed on the practicalities and importance of […]

Today the Council Company Network was launched at an event kindly hosted by Peter Ware, Partner and local government legal expert, at Browne Jacobson’s office in London. The event included contributions from the founding collaborators, Perry Holmes, Peter, Dr Ping Zheng and Rob Hann, local government lawyer and expert in council powers. The inaugural event saw attendees from a mix […]

Today an article was published in a local authority trade publication called the Municipal Journal which was a collaboration between Perry Holmes and Dr Ping Zheng and which sought to describe the recipe for success in a council company. The article floated the proposal to set up a national network focusing on best practice and innovation in council companies and […]