Help for healthy young minds
Councils have a range of duties and responsibilities to promote the health and wellbeing of young people in their area.
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Celebrating Pride
I represent a ward with a rich LGBT+ history, from the Bloomsbury Group living in its squares to the Gay’s the Word bookshop.
Lifeline: starting conversations about domestic abuse services
The delivery of domestic abuse services has always been a complex one.
Model councillors
Local government impacts the lives of citizens every day, providing essential services to those it serves. Its decisions directly affect the quality of life of local people.
Follow the money
Every council requires money to finance the resources it needs to provide local public services. So, every councillor should take an interest in the way their council is funded and the financial decisions the council takes.
Cladding concerns
With almost 1.3 million households affected by dangerous cladding and the exorbitant costs of fixing it, the cladding crisis is one of the key issues facing flat owners today.
Under the spotlight – scrutinising COVID-19
Setting up a scrutiny process in the middle of a pandemic might seem a crazy thing to do.
Chairing remote meetings
While many of the principles of running good face-to-face council meetings apply to remote meetings, chairing in a virtual world does present some additional challenges.
New challenges for scrutiny
Action on climate change is urgent, and the stakes are high – but the size and scale of the task can make local action feel like a Herculean challenge.
Local government and integrated care
For those councillors in local government who scrutinise the NHS, it seems to have become an expectation that as one great change ends in our local health services, another begins.