In Our View, issue 43
Local government reorganisation (LGR) is the key topic in this issue of Socitm’s membership magazine, produced for the June 2025 President’s Conference in Birmingham. A survivor’s guide to LGR, the main feature, includes interviews with Helen Blake of Westmorland and Furness Council and Craig Wilkins of Somerset Council, who went through council reorganisations in 2023. The magazine also includes coverage of the Information Security for London (ISfL) annual conference in March and the Socitm Midlands event in April. The Personal view is by Kevin Taylor of Suffolk County Council and a Socitm vice-president.