Civility and service
With council, mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections just over a month away, I wanted to say thank you to everyone in local government who helps ensure our local democracy works effectively.
With council, mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections just over a month away, I wanted to say thank you to everyone in local government who helps ensure our local democracy works effectively.
In March, LGA Conservative Group colleagues were invited to Downing Street to attend a meeting of the political Cabinet with the Prime Minister.
The Spring Budget on 6 March was the final chance for this Government to turn around 14 years of economic mismanagement and try to put the British economy back on track.
We’re just back from the Liberal Democrat spring conference, where we had a busy and successful time, if a bit exhausting!
It was a great please to spend time with colleagues from Plaid Cymru at their spring conference in Caernarfon in late March.
Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and new large sites are housing fewer people than planned, according to the National Audit Office.
The LGA is proposing reforms to the Right to Buy (RTB) scheme in England to prevent the year-on-year net loss of social housing stock.
Seven in 10 people believe supermarkets and retailers use too much packaging, according to research by YouGov for the LGA.
The LGA is strengthening its Corporate Peer Challenge offer for councils.