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Corby has been named the UK’s Great Town for 2018 at the
Institute for Urbanism awards, narrowly beating two other Labour-run towns in
Milton Keynes and Coventry.
Jeremy Corbyn launched the #MakeHomesSafe campaign demanding
the Government stump up the £1 billion cost of installing sprinkler systems in social
housing tower blocks.
Councils can help solve the housing crisis – but Government must step up says Tower
Hamlets Mayor John Biggs.
Bristol has joined Southwark, Greenwich, and Tower
Hamlets in deciding to publish all developers’ viability
assessments, in a bid to increase transparency in affordable housing
provision.
Brighton’s planning service has been ‘transformed’ thanks to
the leadership of a Labour councillor.
GMB London region
recently filmed a short video with some of our GMB local government
councillors, asking them important questions on how cuts to local government
are affecting local services in their council.
The Guardian has covered how Labour councils are taking
on the ‘Big Six’ energy firms by setting up a council-run not-for-profit energy supplier with
Islington the latest to set one up.
Unison is inviting Labour councillors to attend the
launch of its London Housing Survey event: ‘Housing costs could spark exodus of public
service workers from London’, on Tuesday 28 November 2017, 18.00 – 19.30hrs, in
Committee Room 15, House of Commons. Confirmed speakers include shadow
housing ministers John Healey MP and Melanie Onn MP,
and UNISON London Regional Secretary Maggi Ferncombe. To attend please
RSVP to Amy Fallon on a.fallon@connectpa.co.uk.
Tributes have flooded in for Sunderland Council leader
Cllr Paul Watson, who sadly passed away last week aged 63.
In memory of our
friend and colleague Jo Cox, Labour Women’s Network and the Labour Party
launched the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme last year. Jo was an extremely talented MP who
championed women in leadership roles, international feminism and representing
issues close to her heart. This programme will create a generation of women who
can continue Jo’s fight in parliament, local government and in their
communities.
The last cohort
included a high number of women councillors, and we would again urge women
councillors to apply. Full details of the programme and how to apply (deadline
26th November) can be found online.
The Association of Labour Councillors (ALC) and LGA
Labour Group Local Government Conference will take place on Friday and Saturday
2/3 February 2018.
This event is an
opportunity for Labour’s local government family to meet and discuss a range of
issues relevant to local government and Labour. In addition to keynote speakers
and plenary sessions, there will be a series of policy and campaigning
workshops. Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP is confirmed to speak along with many other
members of Labour’s front bench team.
The details are:
Friday 2 February 2018, 19.30 – 22.30
Drinks reception and dinner
Saturday 3 February 2018, 09.00 – 17.00
Local Government Conference
The conference will be held at East Midlands Conference
Centre, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RJ. To book your place please visit
our website. Please note we are only
able to take online bookings with a debit or credit card. Reserve your place now
Accommodation
We are pleased to have a number of rooms on hold at the
Orchard Hotel, adjacent to the conference venue on a first come first served
basis. To book please call the hotel’s
reservations team on 0115 876 0900 and quote LGA 2/218. Single occupancy is £95 + VAT, double
occupancy is £105 + VAT, bed and breakfast.
These are the same prices as two years ago. Please note this is a
non-refundable, non-transferable rate. Rooms not booked by 4 December 2017 will
be released, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Newly elected councillors
If you are a newly elected councillor, (i.e. elected for
the first time in May 2017 or since in a by-election) you are entitled to a
free conference pass. You should have received an email from the ALC explaining
how to book your place. If you have any queries please email councillors@labour.org.uk for
further information. If you intend to come to the dinner you will need to buy a
ticket for that.
Cllr Debbie
Wilcox, the first female leader of Newport Council and the Welsh LGA, has been made a fellow of the prestigious Institute of Welsh
Affairs, in recognition
of her significant contribution to local government in Wales.
Work on
Swansea’s first new council homes in a generation will be completed by Christmas.
Chronic
underfunding of social care since 2010 is having a severe impact on local authorities says Barbara Keeley.
New statistics
show the Conservatives haven’t given enough attention to social
housing - John Healey.
Simon Stevens has
rightly set out the stark implications of failing to give the NHS the funding it
needs, says Jonathan Ashworth.
Government must
guard against using Brexit to undermine hard-won environmental gains - Sue Hayman.
Dawn Butler said
the gender pay gap remaining the same for the past three years is an indictment of
this Government’s failure.
UK government
tensions rise after leak of Johnson-Gove letter to May.
Care 'will take
up most of our council tax within three years'.
Record 5m patients will be left on NHS waiting lists without Brexit cash boost, health chief
warns.
One in 25 people are homeless in England's worst hit areas.
Councils forced to sell off enough homes to
house Oxford, without ability to borrow-to-build
Safety
warning amid worrying smoke alarm 'failure rate'
Almost
60p in every £1 of council tax could be spent on social care by 2020
LGA
responds to IPPR report on local authority house-building
LGA
responds to Civitas report calling for land market reform
LGA
responds to latest delayed transfers of care figures
Councils
respond to the Children's Society survey on problems facing teenagers
Wandsworth The
Tories managed a double Cabinet resignation last week, with Priti Patel
following Michael Fallon out of the door after holding secret meetings while on holiday in Israel.
Lancashire
Tories were forced into a U-turn after provoking outrage with
their plan to stop paying the Living Wage to over 6,000 workers.
Tory council, Wandsworth, has been condemned after saying it will charge leaseholders £4,000 for the installation of
sprinkler safety systems in tower blocks.
By-election results from 9 November 2017:
Camden LB, Gospel Oak
Lab 1,144 [57.5%; +10.5%]
LD 510
[25.7%; +18.7%]
Con 303 [15.2%; -2.4%]
EDP 31 [1.6%; +1.6%]
Grn 0 [[0.0%; -15.3%]]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -10.1%]]
TUSC 0 [[0.0%; -3.1%]]
Labour
hold
Wandsworth LBC, Thamesfield
Con 1,910 [48.9%; -0.4%]
Lab 1,101 [28.2%; +10.0%]
LD 619
[15.9%; +5.3%]
Grn 275 [7.0%; -9.2%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -5.7%]]
Conservative
hold
Fareham BC, Stubbington
LD 1185
[55.2%; +32.4%]
Con 769 [35.8%; +6.1%]
UKIP 117 [5.4%; -37.9%]
Lab 76 [3.5%; -0.5%]
Lib Dem gain from UKIP
High Peak BC, Limestone Peak
Con 261 [53.7%; +3.4%]
Lab 133 [27.4%; +0.6%]
LD 58
[11.9%; +11.9%]
Green 34 [7.0%; +7.0%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -23.0%]]
Conservative hold
Flintshire
CC, Buckley Bistre West
Lab 398 [53.9%; +4.8]
Ind 110 [14.9%; +14.9%]
Ind 86 [11.7%; +11.7%]
LD 85
[11.5%; -23.0%]
Con 59 [8.0%; +8.0%]
Ind 0 [[0.0%; -16.4%]]
Labour
hold
By-elections taking
place on 16 November 2017
Chiltern DC, Penn & Coleshill
Darlington UA, Redhall & Lingfield
Darlington UA, Mowden
Eden DC, Penrith North
Fylde BC, Staining & Weeton
Hartlepool UA, Victoria
Waveney DC, Kirkley
Waveney DC, St Margarets
West Lindsey DC, Sudbrooke
South Holland DC, Whaplode & Holbeach St Johns
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