Incremental Creep: A Governance Wake-Up Call

About this episode

The episode discusses how small compromises in governance can lead to significant failures in local authorities.

Can small, unnoticed compromises in governance lead to significant failures within local authorities? Join me and Matt Masters, host of Truth About Local Government, as we unpack the subtle but impactful risk of incremental creep in local government governance. We discuss how outdated governance documents and informal practices can gradually erode transparency and accountability. Our conversation sheds light on the importance of maintaining integrity and minimum standards, as well as the crit...

People in this episode

Guest: Matt Masters

Topics covered

• governance
• local authorities
• transparency
• accountability
• incremental creep

Keywords

• governance documents
• informal practices
• integrity
• minimum standards

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