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LEGAL
Organisations push ahead with legal action on remote meetings
By Martin Ford | 19 March 2021
Threats to launch a legal bid to allow remote council meetings to continue beyond the spring have...
HEALTH
Hancock's half hour to ease sector concerns
By Dan Peters | 11 March 2021
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has attempted to ease local government concerns abo...
COUNCILLORS
Cat got your tongue?
10 March 2021
A connoisseur of virtual council meetings, Diary has learned to expect only the unexpected while ...
COUNCILLORS
A new chapter for some
24 February 2021
The leader of Medway Council has been showing us how lockdown should be done by writing a novel.
COUNCILLORS
A Blur of a council career
24 February 2021
Blur drummer and Britpop icon Dave Rowntree’s second career as a Norfolk CC Labour councillor is ...
WHITEHALL
LGA code of conduct 'unlikely to gain traction'
By Dan Peters | 23 February 2021
The Local Government Association’s model code of conduct is ‘unlikely to gain any traction across...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Answers sought over action against council chief
By Martin Ford | 16 February 2021
Councillors in Northumberland have demanded to see a report detailing why disciplinary action aga...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Northumberland councillors demand answers
By Martin Ford | 10 February 2021
Angry members have called a meeting to address the ‘unholy mess’ around the aborted disciplinary ...
COUNCILLORS
Failing to act on audit invites intervention, says Whiteman
By Heather Jameson | 09 February 2021
A failure to act on the Redmond review could lead to more Government intervention, finance chief ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Cross-party backing for European charter
By Dan Peters | 05 February 2021
The European charter of local self-government took a step closer to being incorporated into Scots...
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