Best Value Inspection of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets - 2024
Documents relating to the Best Value Inspection of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
This page collates all publications relating to the inspection of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, announced in February 2024 and conducted under section 10 of the Local Government Act 1999.
Between December 2014 and September 2018 Tower Hamlets Council was subject to a statutory intervention under section 15 of the Local Government Act 1999, following an inspection that reported in November 2014. That report identified best value failure within the authority, particularly in relation to grant making, property disposal and publicity spending. During the period of intervention, the Council made sufficient progress for Ministers to end the statutory intervention in September 2018.
Ministers are concerned that some recent changes at the Council have the potential to undermine the improvement that allowed the previous intervention to end. To support the Council to continue to make arrangements to secure improvement in its governance arrangements and other areas linked to the past intervention, Ministers have appointed inspectors to undertake a new inspection of Tower Hamlets Council’s compliance with its Best Value Duty. Ministers have appointed Kim Bromley-Derry CBE DL as Lead Inspector, and Suki Binjal, Sir John Jenkins and Philip Simpkins as Assistant Inspectors.