• Wakefield MDC chief executive 2008-17
• Sheffield City Council roles inc executive director for neighbourhoods and community care 1999-2008
When Joanne Roney entered local government as an apprentice working in homelessness she was a “16-year-old from a very deprived part of Birmingham who didn’t have many life choices facing her”. She is now the sector’s top chief executive.
It is her personal background which Ms Roney, whose two-year term as president of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives & Senior Managers began at the turn of the year, says lies behind her decision to make tackling inequality her number one priority during her term of office.
England’s most senior election official has told of the “incredible frustration” of returning officers of not knowing whether the government will delay