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Durham County Council announces £20 million investment
programme
Steve Rotheram MP –
‘I’ll put Liverpool at the centre of the Northern
powerhouse’
Blackpool receives
£2.9 million from Coastal Communities Fund to add to new
conference centre budget
Nottingham Council
tenants to get Hyperoptic broadband
Southampton will be powered by clean
energy by 2040, says Cllr
Simon Letts
New tech development given green light by Manchester City Council
New Bristol city centre road layout opens to traffic
Children's
Services in Wolverhampton have been judged to be
"Good" by Ofsted and is ranked in the top 20 per cent nationally
New
park funded by Nottinghamshire County council and WREN hopes to encourage more
children to exercise and get outdoors
Islington,
Newham and Camden Councils are three of four London councils to issue fines to Rogue Landlords
Oldham Council to lead new European community
energy project
Camden
unveils open data platform as the council makes 300 datasets
available for app developers
Labour Councils praised for signing up
to Unison’s ‘Ethical Care
Charter’ in new CLG Committee Report
UK sets out plans to replace all EU laws as Theresa May triggers Article 50
EU sets out 'phased' Brexit strategy
Nicola
Sturgeon makes formal request for a second Scottish independence referendum
Surge in child refugees trying to
reach UK
Communities provide the best
solutions to their own problems
Households across England face 4 per cent council tax rise to help fund social care
(£)
Children in northern England being failed by educational
divide, study finds
More than half of schools forced to increase
class sizes as a result of underfunding
Councils
face business rates cash crisis (£)
Google paid £36 million in tax on UK
revenues of £1 billion, reports show
‘Better-off’ cashing in on Help to Buy scheme, research finds
Benefit
changes 'could push 200,000 children into poverty'
Big brands must cut sugar by 20 per cent,
health chiefs insist (£)
Plans for 6,000 homes in a new £2 billion Cardiff 'garden village' have been approved
Newport council to bid for £8 million lottery funding for Transporter Bridge
Swansea Council and Arts Council of Wales supported
International Jazz Festival will return this summer
The campaign to elect Labour candidate Afzal Khan
is underway in Manchester Gorton. Their campaign office is located at Greatledge Printers, Pink Bank Lane, Longsight,
Manchester, M12 5GH and
is open every day. Trains run regularly into Manchester and there is
plenty of parking in the centre itself.
Jeremy Corbyn MP gave a statement
to the House on the triggering of Article 50
‘For too long the bus industry has put profit
before passengers. Labour will change that’ – Jeremy Corbyn MP
‘This April the Tories are taking working
families for fools’ – John McDonnell MP
John McDonnell MP responds to news of Google’s
tax bill only amounting to £36.4 million
Teresa Pearce MP responds to NAO Report on 100 per cent business
rate retention scheme
Barbara Keeley MP responds to CLG Select Committee social
care report
‘Inflammatory
comments like those made by Michael Howard will not help Britain get what
it needs from Brexit negotiations’ – Emily Thornberry MP
Labour questions legal basis for abandoning NHS
treatment targets – Jonathan Ashworth MP "
‘Sadly this is not an isolated incident but part of a sustained
increase in hate crimes that this Tory Government is yet
to offer any effective response to’ – Diane Abbott MP
The Labour
party has published eight consultation documents, including on Housing, Local Government and Transport
and they want to hear from as many councillors as possible.
The
consultation is open until Wednesday 31 May 2017. All the submission they
receive will go to the appropriate policy commission who will consider your
ideas before rewriting the documents ahead of a summer meeting of the National
Policy Forum on the weekend of the 1 & 2 July 2017.
The
consultation documents can be found at www.policyforum.labour.org.uk
The best and
easiest way to send in your ideas and join the discussion is via our online
home of policy making: www.policyforum.labour.org.uk.
The website
also includes details of your local NPF representatives and your elected
officials representatives who are there to represent you in the Agenda 2020
process.
Councils respond to Government rules over how to
spend extra £2 billion social care funding
LGA responds to NHS delivery plan
LGA responds to CLG Select Committee report into
adult social care
Brexit: councils respond to Great Repeal Bill White
Paper
Children with special needs at risk of being turned
away by schools – warn councils
LGA responds to BMJ report about public health
budgets
LGA responds to NAO report on business rates
LGA responds to Alarm roads survey 2017
Unison’s latest report on ‘What’s happening to Exit Payments in the public sector?
GMB is supporting the campaign group We Own It and LocalGov’s efforts to highlight good examples of publically run local services with their Local Public Ownership Awards
‘Theresa May would go
to war to protect Gibraltar’, Michael Howard says
UKIP AM Michelle Brown faces deselection over 'misconduct'
Tory
politician declared bankrupt after £80,000 legal bill
for slapping her rival
Liberal
Democrat Councillor suspended from group for 18
months over claims leader was 'courting UKIP'
Mayor
of Watford pictured canvassing at her own front door on Liberal Democrat
election leaflets
There were no by-elections on 30 March 2017
There are four by-elections taking place on 6 April 2017:
Bath and North East Somerset UA, Walcot
Aylesbury Vale DC, Elmhurst
Calderdale MB, Hipperholme & Lightcliffe
Tendring DC, St James
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