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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.
Andy Burnham is elected Mayor of Greater
Manchester and Steve Rotheram is elected Mayor of Liverpool
City Region
New Greater Manchester
Mayor Andy Burnham appoints deputies
Birmingham City Councils signs street fundraising agreement with IoF
Council-owned
Bristol Energy aims to be in profit by
2021
Liverpool City Council energy company aims to
tackle fuel poverty
Manchester City Council gives green light for Sheppard Robson Manchester
labs
Ealing
Council has become the first London borough to house homeless people in recycled shipping containers
Bury
Council give planning permission for 'Lidl
of the Future'
Wolverhampton City Council education
'vision' revealed
Trio of Barnsley projects receive funding from Council
Council co-funds
new night-time bus service in Cheshire West &
Chester
Haringey
Council draw up plans to ban smoking in pub beer gardens
Oldham Council is an energy
efficiency champion
Council assesses new Leeds city centre development
proposals at former Tetley’s brewery site
Community groups offered a slice of £100,000 Southampton City Council grants
Brent Council has given the go-ahead for the construction of 236 new
homes in South Kilburn
Matthew Taylor argues Mayors must
act fast to set out individual visions (£)
Brexit will 'stall'
City, says Goldman Sachs chief
Jean-Claude Juncker says English is 'losing
importance' after Brexit as EU launches fresh bid to strip City of euro
trade (£)
Record number of UK care homes declared insolvent
Half of girls in some areas missing out on cancer
jab (£)
Two in three are hit by mental
health problems
UK must get tough on childhood
obesity, says top doctors
UK house prices in first quarterly fall since 2012
Poverty
risk for 50,000 low-income households at lower benefit cap
UK clean air
strategy: Government to publish draft proposals
Diesel car sales slump as drivers fear emission
fees (£)
Fly-tipping
epidemic costs taxpayers £600 million a year (£)
Broadband
crackdown as providers warned at least half of customers must receive
advertised speeds
Labour
keeps control in Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Flintshire
Jeremy Corbyn’s statement on the local
election results
Jeremy Corbyn responds to Theresa May’s Brexit
speech in Downing Street
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at a rally in Leicester
Emily Thornberry responds to reports the Tories are planning
a vote
on Syria if re-elected
‘Labour to halt the Tories hospital
closure plan’ - Jonathan Ashworth
‘Labour’s new manifesto ambition to make Britain’s children
the healthiest
in the world’ says Jonathan Ashworth
‘Even Theresa May’s own backbenchers realise her approach to
school
funding is an exercise in moving inadequate sums of money around’ - Angela
Rayner
‘Nonsense from a Tory campaign that’s all
slogan and no substance’ – Andrew Gwynne
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.
In light of the General Election, we’ve been working hard on your behalf with the Labour policy team who are drafting the manifesto. We have
written to them, to set out the key policy pledges that we want the manifesto
to commit to. We have also published a briefing that
sets out the key commitments we want adopted in order to help all parts of
local government better support our communities and deliver on the challenges
facing the nation. If you have any key figures from the Party in your patch
hopefully you'll be able to restate our lines in your discussions with them.
Ten point plan to boost local services – local government sets out key manifesto asks
LGA responds to broadband speeds advertising consultation
Prevention Matters and Health in all
Policies Workshop Training
26
June 2017, CCT Venues, St Johns Street, Farringdon: Agenda
The LGA’s Care
and Health Improvement Programme has developed a sector-led improvement offer
to support councils with prevention and early intervention. There are two core
‘products’ as part of this offer:
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Prevention Matters: a one-day workshop for elected members covering health inequalities, prevention and the role of the council
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Health in all Policies support: a one-day workshop designed to help councils reflect on how well embedded health improvement considerations are within their policies and service plans.
We are running
a training event to brief member peers to help us deliver these new elements of
the programme. Read the recent Health in all Policies publication as
background to this support.
To register your
interest, please contact Kate Biddlecombe - kate.biddlecombe@local.gov.uk - who will be in touch with further information.
New Conversations Political Leadership Masterclass
An exciting (and free!) new masterclass that will help you engage and consult with residents in an effective and creative way.
If you find yourself asking “how do we effectively engage at a time when resources are scarce?”, “how do we build and maintain trust when difficult decisions are being taken?”, “what are the legal pitfalls that need to be navigated during a period of unprecedented reform?”, this programme is for you.
This practical, one-day masterclass will bring the new LGA New Conversations Guide to life. You’ll learn tips and tools to help build a stronger dialogue between your council and residents. We’ll share with you creative engagement approaches to build two-way relationships with your communities, including co-production, crowdsourcing, events and public meetings.
At the end of this masterclass, you will have:
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been introduced to useful tools, which can be used immediately in your role as councillor
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shared and heard best practice from across the sector
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taken part in action learning and considered your next steps on how to engage and consult like an expert.
New Conversations Masterclass 1
Thursday 20 July 2017
Warwick Conferences, Coventry CV4 7SH
New Conversations Masterclass 2
Friday 13 October 2017
Local Government House, Smith Square, London
New Conversations Masterclass 3
Friday 10 November 2017
Metro Hotel, Leeds
Please contact Grace.Collins@local.gov.uk for more information or to book.
UK-EU relations hit new
low as Theresa May viciously attacks European politicians
Tories to keep 'tens of thousands' target
UKIP
is 'done' after terrible local elections results, says Douglas Carswell
Tory
Candidate claims she 'healed' deaf man's hearing with the power of prayer
Tory candidate caught 'sneering' at working class locals for
drinking
coffee
Tim Farron admits he had Thatcher
poster in his childhood bedroom
Lib Dem candidate drops out of race because she’s ‘moving
house’ during the election
Nigel Farage endorses far-right Marine
Le Pen to be French president
Co-operative
Party Local Government Conference
‘Not
waiting for Whitehall’
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Where: IET Austin Court, Central Birmingham
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When: Saturday 24 June, 9:30-17:00
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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:
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Jim McMahon MP, (Shadow Minister Communities and Local Government and former Leader of Oldham Council)
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Cllr Sue Jeffery (Redcar and Cleveland Council)
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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.
Local elections 2017: a full list of results can be found here and a map of the results can be found here.
There
are two by-elections taking place on 11 May 2017:
South Derbyshire DC, Woodville
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk BC, Fairstead
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