The acceleration of inappropriate behaviour in town and parish councils is leaving staff in fear for their jobs. Will the Government take action? Ann McGauran reports.
The parish and principal council sectors need to work much better together to ensure the best pos...
A genuine working partnership between central and local government is vital to the success of loc...
Chippenham Town Council may be a parish council, but is structured as and acts like a district or...
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.’
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Local Council Clerk Week is taking place from 10 to 14 July. Rob Smith says clerks are truly at t...
Ministers have been urged to ‘modernise the archaic 40-year-old system’ of parish polls after wha...
Rob Smith sets out the main conclusions of a landmark report based on the Society of Local Counci...
Parish councils and principal authorities should agree a ‘duty to consult’ across tiers of local ...
The role of councillor should become a full-time profession as part of further devolution, it has...
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