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.
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.
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.
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.
The constancy of change in local government, more often than not resulting from central government policy, shapes councillors’ experiences.
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The scale of the challenge that councils are currently facing requires strong, responsive and resilient leadership.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought about fast-paced changes to the way we live and work.
It comes as a shock to realise that, however large a majority you have secured to achieve a particular ambition for your residents, you alone are not going to achieve it.
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