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WHITEHALL
Video conferencing first at council meeting
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2020
A council used software to help decide key planning applications in what is believed to be the fi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Changes to governance structures are needed in a time of pandemic
By Helen McGrath | 31 March 2020
Decision making is a pressing concern facing local government lawyers due to the evolving pandemi...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
A powerful light at the end of the tunnel
By Donna Hall | 25 March 2020
These are the most challenging times most of us have lived through, says Donna Hall – and ‘we can...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
How are councils responding the COVID-19 crisis?
By Neil McInroy | 24 March 2020
CLES is collecting details of local authorities’ innovative and exceptional measures to support p...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Councils respond to coronavirus outbreak
By Martin Ford | 16 March 2020
Councils have closed, events and meetings have been cancelled and some politicians are in self-is...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Plans drawn up for remote meetings
By Heather Jameson | 16 March 2020
Plans to let local authorities conduct their council meetings remotely are being considered by th...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Budget 2020: New West Yorkshire mayor announced
By Dan Peters | 11 March 2020
A new directly-elected West Yorkshire mayor has been announced with the Government signing a new ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Building communities for change
By Robbie Bates | 11 March 2020
In order to deliver sustainable and impactful change we need to take a whole place-based approach...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Political control of our councils matters
By Paul Wheeler | 10 March 2020
Paul Wheeler looks ahead to the elections expected in May and the parties' political prospects – ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
'Voter ID could disenfranchise certain sections of community'
By Naomi Larsson | 04 March 2020
Forcing voter ID could disenfranchise certain sections of the community, a House of Lords select ...
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