The LGA is looking for a senior professional adviser to head up our Labour Group Office. You will work in a high-pressure environment, advising and supporting the Labour group leader, planning and overseeing the delivery of support to councillors and managing the office. More information and how to apply can be found here.
Out on the campaign trail? Send us your best photos and they may appear in the Labour Group Annual Report. They need to be high resolution and you’ll need to tell us who is in the photo and give confirmation that everyone pictured is happy for us to use it. Please send them to anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk.
Newcastle
City Council backs Sunderland's UK City of Culture 2021 bid
Hammersmith & Fulham
residents will
be the first in London to
drive electric cars for free after H&F Council Leader, Cllr Stephen Cowan,
negotiated residents a year’s free membership of its new electric car club,
Bluecity
Ground-breaking horticultural
apprenticeship to blossom thanks to Oldham Council and Oldham
College
Plans for new road in Leicester city
centre backed as £7million scheme moves forward
As councils struggle with
cuts, Preston City Council has
adapted a pioneering grassroots
approach from America to tackling inequality and keeping profits local
Liverpool City Council looks to sail ahead with new cruise
terminal plans
New health service launched to help
Southampton residents control their lifestyle
Leeds City Council teams up
with M&S to back ‘MetalMatters’
campaign
Tower Hamlets Council
launches Workpath
service to help residents find
employment
Designated as a scheme of
‘national significance,’ the International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP)
on the South
Tyneside/Sunderland border is
set to play a key role in transforming the fortunes of the region, and indeed the
UK (Page 30)
Former vacant office space
in Corby town centre has
been transformed
into new flats, bringing life back into the dormant space in Cardigan House
West Midlands mayoral
candidate, Siôn Simon, seeks to tell a different Labour story
May to seek
snap General Election for 8 June
A Guardian
editorial says the re-engineering of how local government is funded is one of the most important but least discussed
questions in a Whitehall dominated by Brexit
Interviews
with two of the candidates bidding to become the first mayor of Greater
Manchester (£)
Labour to promise unpaid
carers 17% allowance increase
New
Schools in England are cutting back on teachers and teaching assistants (TAs) because of financial constraints, a survey
for the Sutton Trust suggests from Wales
Poorest pupils face bigger cuts per head under funding formula (£)
Don’t
believe the hype – grammar schools won’t increase social mobility, argues Fiona Millar
Pupils
with special needs are at risk of being turned away by mainstream schools due to real term cuts in
school budgets
Ministers spent five times the going rate on sites for four new free schools in London, the
Evening Standard reveals today. Official figures obtained under Freedom of
Information show that £120 million was splurged on just four old buildings to
be turned into new schools
Lancashire residents have lost a High Court legal challenge seeking to overturn a decision by the Communities
Secretary Sajid Javid to approve fracking in the county
Tributes have
been paid to Cllr Keith Reynolds,
Leader of Caerphilly Council, who has passed away
Cardiff Council partners with Gardners Partners for WEEE
Recycling Drive
Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the Prime Minister’s call for a General Election
Labour will use £200 billion government purchasing power to
upgrade our economy, says Jeremey Corbyn
A Labour government would force
all private companies who take government contracts to recognise trade unions and offer their employees
full collective bargaining, Jeremy Corbyn has announced
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Federation of
Small Businesses
John McDonnell and Debbie Abrahams launch Labours Pensioners’ Pledge Card
Tory failure on living standards sees
real earnings fall by £1,200
Labour will make corporate tax returns public
‘Month after month the Conservatives are missing key targets for
cancer, ambulance response times and A&E waiting times’ - Jonathan Ashworth
Labour will protect the high street by ending damaging bank closures
‘Grammar schools will
do nothing to help the overwhelming majority of working families across the
country’ - Angela Rayner
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 submissions 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 and 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 who are there to represent you in the Agenda 2020
process.
Chewing gum:
councils highlight clear-up costs
LGA responds to
education announcement on selective schools
LGA responds to
latest delayed discharges figures
LGA responds to TPA report on senior council staff pay
LGA responds to
Independent Age report on care homes
UKIP
will contest just 48 per cent of council seats in May's local
elections - even less than the Greens
Former
Tory, then UKIP, now Independent MP, Douglas Carswell says Ukip should
'disband'
UKIP
councillor who drives tankers for a living denies being three times over the drink-drive limit.
Tory
election spending: MP admitted to police some claims were wrong
'Chaos'
as hundreds of people queue for
hours in 20C
heat for new recycling bins.
Labour
just won a Town council election by default because Ukip filled out a form
wrongly
A
Tory police and crime commissioner could face charges over election
expenses.
Co-operative
Party Local Government Conference ‘Not
waiting for Whitehall’
-
Where: IET Austin Court, Central Birmingham
-
When: Saturday 24 June, 9:30am-5pm
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Cost: £10 including lunch and drinks
The
conference will hear bring together key voices in Local Government to discuss
key issues such as housing and education.
Currently confirmed speakers include:
- Jim McMahon MP, (Shadow Minister
Communities and Local Government and former Leader of Oldham Council)
- Sue Jeffery (Labour & Co-op
Metro Mayor Candidate Tees Valley and Leader of Redcar and Cleveland
Council)
- Rt Hon John Healey MP (Shadow
Housing Minister)
With
more to follow in the weeks ahead.
As
you know we have been busy working to develop and promote innovative community
wealth models, fair tax campaigns and co-operative development through the
year.
We want to hear from you, gather your views and experiences so we continue to
strengthen our work and support you as Councillors and co-operators.
Join
us for the day in June and help us shape our next twelve months of
work supporting you.
‘Winning again: Understanding
what voters want from Labour’: Grimond Room, Portcullis
House, 8.30-9.45am, 25 April 2017
The
Smith Institute would like to invite you to discussion on ‘Winning again:
Understanding what voters want from Labour’. The event will kick off a series
of Smith Institute policy to politics seminars, with a focus on what matters to
voters and what voters want from Labour? We will hear from Deborah Mattinson,
founding partner of BritainThinks and Nick Pecorelli, associate director of The
Campaign Company. After the presentations we will have a Q&A session
chaired by John Healey MP.
Please register now
There were no by-elections on 13 April 2017
There are two by-elections taking place on 20 April 2017:
Harrow LB, Kenton East Cheshire West & Chester UA, Blacon
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