Member policy briefings- Gypsies and Travellers: two new government reports
- DfE – Statutory Guidance for Schools and Local Authorities on Careers Guidance and consultation on extending the age range
- SOLACE Filling the gap: the Championing Role of English Councils in Education
- Update on Healthwatch
- Guidance on Exclusions from maintained schools, Academies and PRUs in England
- LGiU weekly policy summary – 11 May
- The future of mayoral governance and implications for city leadership
- Local measures to promote walking and cycling
Creative approaches to multiple community asset transfer
This is a guest post from Debbie Lamb, Development Manager – Locality. The current financial crisis is changing the face of community asset transfer. Locality and its predecessors, the Development Trusts Association and bassac, have long since advocated and supported community asset transfer. Three or four years ago, the main model of community asset transfer [...]
Tags: Civil Society Innovation Network |
Politics, technology and the media – they’re all pointing to the local
This blog was first published by the BBC’s College of Journalism. On May 24, I am due to speak at the College of Journalism’s Connecting Communitiesconference about how local councils and councillors have reacted to the emergence of community media. But before looking at the ‘how’, I want to ask why current momentum suggests that citizen-led content [...]
Tags: hyperlocal, journalism, media, social media |
The future of mayoral governance and implications for city leadership
This blog is based on a LGiU member briefing by David Marlow. Click here for more information about LGiU membership. In the aftermath of local elections and mayoral referendums on May 2012, there is a need to take stock of future prospects for mayoral governance in English Local Authorities, and also of the related implications of [...]
Tags: city leadership, elected Mayors, governance |
Where does the Queen’s speech leave adult social care funding?
UPDATE: DH have confirmed that a ‘progress report’ addressing the funding of social care will be published later in the spring, to go alongside the Social Care White Paper. They say that the two documents will “probably” be published at the same time. These will be followed by the Draft Care and Support Bill once [...]
Tags: adult social care, Queen's Speech |
Andy Sawford blogs on Queen’s Speech
This blog was first published by Public Finance. Ronald Regan famously said “Don’t just do something, stand there”. He believed that government should get out of people’s lives and that the American people would be better served by an in-active government. As a localist I’ve spent years complaining about hyper-active central government in the UK, imposing too [...]
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Queen’s Speech: key aspects for local government
Queen’s Speech 2012 The Queen has delivered her speech to the House of Lords setting out the Coalition Government’s programme for the next Parliamentary year. The speech centred on measures to focus on “economic growth, justice and constitutional reform.” The Cabinet Office has released some very useful briefing notes. Bills Relevant to Local Government Children [...]
Tags: localism, Queen's Speech |
The Local Government ‘Alternative Queen’s Speech’
With the local elections over, and with one of the longest sessions of Parliament in recent history now at an end, thoughts in Whitehall are turning to future legislation. Time was that local government promoted legislation in Parliament. In the late 19th Century in particular major bills, such as on Public Health, were initiated by [...]
End of day briefing. How the local government landscape has changed
The last 36 hours at the LGiU have been dominated by coverage of the local elections and mayoral elections. There are only a few more councils left to declare results. As things stand at 16:30, the scene across the country looks like this: Party Councils Councillors Total +/- Total +/- Labour 71 +30 1908 +739 [...]
Tags: local elections |
Predicting the 50 councils to watch: how Andy’s predictions are playing out
Derby: A key battleground for all three main parties, the Conservatives (16 seats) and Lib Dems (12 seats) run the council in coalition but Labour is the largest party (22 seats). Labour will be targetting gains of 4 seats to take control but only a third of council seats are up for election. With the [...]
Watching the top 50 councils
LGiU have predicted the top 50 councils to watch. Here are these councils, along with the time that we expect their results to be annouced. Authority Time Type Carlisle Before 1am District Council Exeter Before 1am District Council Lincoln Before 1am District Council Nuneaton and Bedworth Before 1am District Council Portsmouth Before 1am English [...]
Local #hashtags to follow tonight
As well as #le12 , there are lots of other hashtags being used today, which link to other local elections. These include: #monelection2012 - Monmouthshire #bwdvote2012 – Blackburn with Darwen #Swindonelection - Swindon #brumvotes12 - Birmingham #liverpoolvotes – Liverpool #HullVotes - Hull #ccs12 - Swansea #cdfelection - Cardiff #walelect12 - Walsall #wakeyelections - Wakefield #rdg - Reading #swindonelection - Swindon #votecouncil12 - A general one for [...]
What will the Queen have to say on 9th May?
The Queen will open a new session of Parliament next week, on 9th of May. According to press reports the contents of the Queen’s Speech were agreed at a meeting of the Cabinet on 31st January. This is possible, as permission would be required to allow Parliamentary Counsel to draft new Bills which will be [...]
Local Elections 2012: Expected declaration times
Below is a list of when we expect councils to declare their local election results. Information has been gathered through an LGiU survey, with additional data from the Press Association.
These elections will be told through local voices
Council elections are too often reported through the prism of national party politics with contests being cast as tests for party leaders. Undoubtedly the elections that take place on Thursday in 181 authorities – as well as the three mayoral battles in London, Liverpool and Salford – are influenced by the Westminster fortunes of parties [...]