We have postponed our Internal Elections and
Appointments process until after the General Election. We will begin all
processes immediately after the General Election. Please email anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk if you have any questions.
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.
Birmingham
City Council has issued 'Brummie Bond' to build homes
Bristol Council-Owned Waste
Company Launches Commercial Services
Hammersmith & Fulham
Council fund improvement of Lyric Square ahead of 2017 Summer Celebrations
Councillor Warren Morgan
has published a list of one hundred positive achievements of Labour-led Brighton and Hove Council
School improvements, action on empty homes and road routes: Sunderland's
city leaders make plans for
the future
Council
funded theatre opens after 10-year absence in Chester
Haymarket Theatre plans unveiled as
£3 million Leicester City Council investment is set to start
New Tottenham
Stadium to hold 61,559 after Haringey Council approve capacity increase
Demolition
of the Grosvenor block signals the transformation of Sheffield’s city centre
Bolton patients moving
back home as part of £3.6 million council funded project
Slough Council cracks down on unused and derelict homes
Councillor Alice Perry’s
NEC Report
NHS cyber-attack: Bosses fear further infections from ransomware
Funding shortfall 'threatens support for
vulnerable children'
7 out of 10 children with mental health problems are treated outside home area
UK industrial output shrinks for a third month in a row
Bank of
England warns of consumer spending squeeze
Number of foreign tech job applications down 50% since EU
referendum vote
Young
professionals resist London’s lure and head north for jobs (£)
NHS faces 'ticking time bomb', doctors warn
Hospital
'long-waiters' show sharp rise
Care
boss calls for new rules to keep elderly couples together (£)
Care staff 'may not get minimum wage' leaked report claim
HIV life expectancy 'near normal' thanks to
new drugs
Parents should be offered 'childcare passport'
Pothole damage
to cars soars
Punters
lose billions in fixed‑odds betting frenzy (£)
Cllr
Huw Thomas is
elected new Leader of Cardiff Council
Cllr Debbie
Wilcox discusses the new £38 million investment for Newport foundry to make new technology
behind 5G
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at Labour’s campaign launch
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the Royal College of
Nursing Annual Conference
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at Chatham House
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Labour will transform education for the many not the few’
‘The Tories’ failed economic plan is holding Britain back’ - John
McDonnell
John McDonnell’s speech at Fire Brigades Union
conference
Under Theresa May and the Tories we’ve seen seven years of failure on housing - John
Healey
Working people £2,300 worse off under
Theresa May’s watered down National Living Wage
Labour will protect state pension as
Tories fail to commit to Triple Lock
Labour calls for action over NHS cyber-attack
New figures show that
Theresa May is failing millions of NHS patients - Jonathan Ashworth
Labour to end NHS car park charges
Labour launches National Education Service
‘Desperate Tories re-announce energy bill plan with no proper detail or commitment to
help working people’ – Rebecca Long-Bailey
Labour to strengthen legal protections for LGBT
community
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.
Councils face £2
billion funding gap to support vulnerable children by 2020
LGA political
balance confirmed
20 promises
the Tories have broken since being elected two years ago
No charges over 2015 Conservative
battle bus cases
Theresa May
has said she won't rule out a hike in National Insurance after the General
Election
Claims
emerge of splits at the highest levels of the Tory government
between Theresa May and Philip Hammond
Theresa May
confirms that she wants to bring back fox hunting
Tory MP 'told schoolgirl to
"f*** off back to Scotland" when she said she'd vote for independence
Conservative councillor suspended after 'gypsies' tweet during
Eurovision Song Contest
Paul Nuttall stands by
UKIP MEP who called Islam a death cult
Paul Nuttall
has said that Jeremy Corbyn would surrender the Falklands...to Australia
UKIP's
Clacton candidate dropped in 'shambolic' move
UKIP leader criticised for
disclosing confidential Hillsborough meeting
Council bosses have apologised after voters in Plymouth were mistakenly sent the wrong polling cards
for the General Election.
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.
By-elections
There
were no by-elections on 11 May 2017.
There
are 2 by-elections taking place on 18 May 2017:
Richmondshire DC, Reeth & Arkengarthdale
Enfield LB, Enfield Lock
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