LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Jenrick backs legal challenge over virtual meetings

By Heather Jameson | 07 April 2021

Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has backed a legal challenge to allow councils to carry on w...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Government's face off is virtual insanity

By Heather Jameson | 31 March 2021

Central Government has ruled out extending the power to have virtual council meetings beyond the ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

LEPs: delivering on jobs and diversity

By Stacey King | 30 March 2021

Local enterprise partnerships have worked across boundaries and borders to help create or preserv...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Seize the reins

By Simon Edwards | 30 March 2021

The County Councils Network's new business plan for recovery and renewal puts forward evidence-ba...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Open source is the way forward for open democracy

By Lora Botev | 29 March 2021

For local councils, open source has the potential to enable innovations and optimise the way they...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Virtual insanity: Councils hit out at refusal to extend meeting rules

By Heather Jameson | 26 March 2021

Councils will not be able to hold virtual council meetings after 6 May after the Government refus...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Legal battle or virtual meetings fast-tracked to meet May deadline

By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2021

The legal battle to allow virtual meetings to continue after 6 May has taken a step forward after...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

We need to hear everyone's voice

By Dan Corry | 16 March 2021

Apparent attempts to stifle the voice of civil society are bad for all of us, says Dan Corry - an...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA urges rethink on virtual meetings

By Heather Jameson | 09 March 2021

The Local Government Association’s chairman has urged ministers to pave the way for virtual counc...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Damaging democracy through codes of conduct

By Colin Copus | 09 March 2021

Colin Copus makes the case for codes of conduct for councillors to be localised rather than natio...

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