Welcome to Season 4 of Let's Talk Ideas.

In this episode we are joined by Mike Dawson, recently retired executive of Tewkesbury Borough council with around 50 years of local government experience and Toby Savage, previous leader of South Gloucestershire council and previous committee member of the mayoral authority for West of England combined authority.

Today's episode will be the first part of our two part discussion around the recently published devolution white paper, 'power & partnership'. We will talk implications, wider impact and the significant changes to the wider organisational structure of councils across England.

You can ⁠connect with Mike through his Bromford email, [email protected], and Toby through his LinkedIn handlehere.

You can also read more about the white paperhere.