LGA ‘offer’ to new government
The new Parliament presents a great opportunity for national and local government to work in partnership and reset the relationship between them, to deliver transformative change, the LGA has said.
The new Parliament presents a great opportunity for national and local government to work in partnership and reset the relationship between them, to deliver transformative change, the LGA has said.
In March, LGA Conservative Group colleagues were invited to Downing Street to attend a meeting of the political Cabinet with the Prime Minister.
It was a great please to spend time with colleagues from Plaid Cymru at their spring conference in Caernarfon in late March.
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind for local government, not least because of the announcement of the provisional finance settlement, but also because of the outstanding work that our colleagues across the sector have done in response to the flooding and damage caused by recent storms (including Henk, Isha and Jocelyn, as the February edition of first was going to press).
The LGA has launched the second phase of its engagement on how the improvement and assurance framework for local government can be improved.