The officer who answers for it — nine hundred years before the title was Section 151 Officer.
A shire-reeve wasn't a lord ruling by birthright. He was the officer personally answerable for a shire's affairs to the crown — the word survives today as sheriff. The duty never left local government. It just changed its name.
The Reeve — answerable, not sovereign
Section 151 Officers, procurement officers and elected councillors carry genuinely different statutory duties — Reeve grounds every answer in which one actually applies to you, not a generic "compliance" gloss.
A personal, non-delegable duty under s.114 LGFA 1988 to report unlawful spending — no one, not the Leader, not the Chief Executive, can override it. Reeve walks the statutory duty itself, not just the theory around it.
Personal liability under the Bribery Act, the Fraud Act and ECCTA 2023 — Reeve drills the red flags and the actual Procurement Act 2023 thresholds, not a vague "be careful" checklist.
Cabinet member or not, the powers genuinely differ. Reeve grounds every answer in the specific mechanism — scrutiny, call-in, full council — rather than an ungrounded "you have oversight of X".
What you're personally on the hook for, under which specific provision, and what a defensible paper trail actually looks like versus one that only looks adequate.
Actual procurement, treasury and governance-failure scenarios drawn from real council cases — complexity builds progressively, you reason it through before the answer is revealed.
Structured enough to deliver to a whole team, not just consumed solo — a named scenario, a discussion question, a clear right answer, built so the session itself is evidence of real training.
A real deterministic calculator checking a broker's loan or option quote against direct central-government borrowing — Reeve narrates the result, never guesses the maths.
Every statutory or governance claim Reeve makes is grounded in a named provision or mechanism — or Reeve says plainly it can't find one, rather than smoothing the gap over with a plausible-sounding "you have oversight of that".
No account required — try Reeve on your own statutory question.
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