GOVERNANCE

Clampdown on committees

Kathy O’Leary questions the thinking behind the abolition of the committee system

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Hello, Goodbye. It was great to get together with colleagues from across the country, rather than the universe, for a few days at the recent Local Government Association Conference in Liverpool – a city that has undergone significant and impressive transformation since I was a student there.

How fitting that we spent much of our time discussing the transformation of local government to give more power and funding to local communities and the challenges and opportunities this presents.

Kathy O'Leary

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