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Member policy briefings- Reform of 14-16 Performance Tables from 2014 (date: 13/02/2012)
- A good education for all: Ofsted consultation on amended inspection arrangements (date: 15/02/2012)
- Delivering the free entitlement to education for three- and four-year-olds: NAO report (date: 10/02/2012)
- Education and training – Raising the Participation Age – consultation on policies that will form regulations (date: 07/0...
- Building Engagement, Building Futures : 16-24 year olds in Education, Training and Work (date: 25/01/2012)
- High Speed 2 rail infrastructure project (date: 13/02/2012)
- Health Select Committee report on Social Care (date: 20/02/2012)
- Public car parking and local government: key trends and developments for 2012 (date: 16/01/2012)
C’llr Achievement Awards 2012: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
LGiU and CCLA are delighted to announce the 2012 shortlist for the C’llr Achievement Awards. With over 250 entries, it was the strongest field of candidates to date. We were inspired by all the entries –particularly to see so many great examples of where councillors have made a huge difference to their communities. But, we [...]
Tags: Age UK, Bruce-Lockhart, Councillors, finance, Local Leaders, online, Sustainability |
Civil Society Innovation Network: event 2
The second session of the LGiU Civil Society Innovation Network took place on 23 January 2012, and brought together members of the Network, with Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Minister of State for Decentralisation and Cities, London Borough of Sutton, the University of Manchester and Locality to discuss issues around knowing and developing communities. There was a particular [...]
Age UK Care in Crisis 2012 report
Today’s Age UK Care in Crisis 2012 report leaves no-one in any doubt about the scale of the financial challenge facing adult social care services. It finds that that this year’s spending on older people’s social care in England has fallen by £500 million. Age UK project that by 2012-2013 the government would need to spend [...]
Tags: Age UK |
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The Question session will take place today at 2.30pm. LGiU will cover the oral questions live and will produce a briefing available to member authorities. 1 Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): What steps his Department has taken to increase transparency in (a) local government and (b) departmental spending. 2 Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): What plans he has to [...]
Tags: benefits, business rates, communities, housing, localism act, NPPF, spending data, welfare |
Councils need more power to fulfil education role
LGiU Director Jonathan Carr-West has a comment piece in this week’s TES. Jonathan argues that, whatever you think of academy schools, they’re not going away. He argues that there’s a reasonable localist case for academies since true localists should be committed to devolving power to the lowest level possible. In the case of education, that [...]
Tags: academies, local government, TES, Westminster City Council |
Super Thursday and elected mayors
Patrick Wintour reports on the Greg Clark’s plans to hold mayoral and police commissioner elections on the same day – Thursday 15 November, now being called ‘Super Thursday’. The government’s tactics in bringing forward elections to November seem designed to generate some momentum and interest around the country, as well as forcing the hand of those Councillors [...]
Government finance plans signal dedication to localism
This article was first published on the Guardian’s Local Government Network. As I wrote in my predictions for 2012, councils will find themselves at the forefront of the charge towards recovery this year. Communities secretary Eric Pickles has a plan for this charge; by changing the way local business rates are distributed to incentivise local growth. [...]
Tags: economy, finance, Local Finance Bill |
Ten things you need to know about the Health and Social Care Bill
Yesterday saw the release of a critical report from the cross-party Health Select Committee on the Health Minister, Andrew Lansley’s proposals to reorganise the NHS. Stephen Dorrell, the Committee’s Chairman and former Health Secretary, said that “the NHS should focus on achieving efficiencies rather than on management upheaval”. Whatever you think of the Bill, it [...]
Event: How to build a local currency
The Brixton Pound (B£) is designed to support Brixton businesses and encourage local trade and production. It’s a complementary currency, working alongside (not replacing) pounds sterling, for use by independent local shops and traders, with a view to maintaining the diversity of the local high street. The B£ is the UK’s first local currency in [...]
Tags: Brixton, High Streets, local economies, seminars |
Katharine Birbalsingh’s free school
Food for thought in the TES, Observer and Telegraph. First off, a piece on a storm brewing in Wandsworth over Katharine Birbalsingh’s planned secondary free school. There’s a little local difficulty over the fact that the school will open in a Borough that has spare places in its secondary schools but not enough space in [...]
Tags: Free Schools, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Wales |
The Localism Act – Over to You *70 EXTRA TICKETS RELEASED*
The LGiU and Bristol City Council are hosting a major one-day policy conference in Bristol, for the south-west and west midlands. The Localism Act – over to you brings together Local Government Minister Andrew Stunell, Cities Advisor Lord Shipley, with a range of local councillors and officers as well as senior officials from the Department for Communities [...]
How we’re changing our member briefings, and why
This blog post is aimed at councillors and officers in LGiU member councils who receive our briefings service. Each year we do a members survey and you consistently say our briefings are excellent, value for money, and help you do your job. In our 2011 survey we asked for your thoughts on improving [...]
Introducing… Changemakers
LGiU had some new neighbours move into the next office over the holidays. We are very excited to work alongside Changemakers as we believe their aims match ours - empowering people to take a lead and strengthening communities. As a way to introduce them to our network, we have asked them to write a guest blog outlining the great work they do, and how you [...]
Tags: Changemakers, communities, young people |
C’llr Awards Deadline Tomorrow: Only time to nominate 104 more councillors…
The deadline for nominations for the 2012 C’llr Achievement Awards is fast-approaching, but there is still time to put in an entry. The following 11 different awards will be up for grabs at the 2012 ceremony: Age UK Pride of Place Award – New for 2012 Bruce-Lockhart Member Scholarship (with £10,000 bursary) – New for [...]
Tags: C'llr Achievement Awards, CCLA, Councillors |
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