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The LGA Labour Group office is looking for a new
Political Adviser, as Uma Kumaran is sadly leaving us to take up a role with
the Mayor of London. Our Political Adviser will help provide a strong national
voice for Labour in local government, and to support our brilliant Labour
councillors across England and Wales. We work in a fast paced, high-pressure
environment, advising and supporting the Labour Group councillors and working
on a daily basis with councillors, Shadow Ministers, MPs and other senior politicians
on a range of issues of importance to local government.
Based in Westminster, we’re looking for someone with
experience of working in a political environment, and an understanding of local
government, public policy work and parliamentary procedures. Candidates must
have excellent written and oral communication skills and a very high degree of
political sensitivity. For more information and to apply.
Deadline for applications is 5pm today (Tuesday 28th
November), with interviews on Friday 8th December.
Cllr Nick
Forbes comments on the devo deal and transport boost for North of
Tyne.
Cllr Andy Hull of Islington and 21 other London Council
Finance Leaders write to the standard: Budget
will do nothing to tackle the funding crisis facing councils in London.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council have launched ethical debt collections to save public funds by
ending the use of bailiffs for council tax collection, and helping residents
avoid debt in the first place.
Labour can take Tory 'crown
jewel' councils next year, says Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Labour in
Ipswich have condemned Suffolk
council for failing to set aside money in the
budget for tackling gangs.
Unison are
inviting Labour councillors to attend their ‘Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016:
The Two Child Tax Credit limit and Rape Clause’ campaign meeting, on 4th
December 2017, 12:00 -14:00, Committee Room P, Portcullis House. Confirmed
speakers include: Dave Prentis,
UNISON General Secretary; Eleanor Smith, Labour MP for Wolverhampton South
West; and Lucy Hadley, Campaigns & Public Affairs Officer at Women’s Aid.
To attend please RSVP to c.russell@conenctpa.co.uk
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.
As speeches go, ‘the one given by
Debbie Wilcox to kick start the latest gathering of council leaders was all
guns blazing’.
Pembrokeshire council tax 'could
go up by 10%'.
Jeremy
Corbyn MP new living wage analysis and Scotland speech in full.
Sue Hayman MP responding to the Lancashire
floods.
The
Tories need to stop dragging their feet and give Greater Manchester Police the resources they need – Diane Abbott MP.
The Budget offers no
plan to fix the housing crisis - John Healey MP.
BBC Budget
2017: What it means for you.
Almost 100,000 households in England are priced
out of the property market each year due to a shortage of affordable homes
to rent or buy.
Caroline Abrahams, Director of Age UK, says the “health
and wellbeing of some of our most vulnerable citizens is
increasingly at risk” after the Budget included no funding for social care.
(£)
UK economy faces 'longest fall in
living standards in 60 years'.
The Government’s Starter Homes policy, announced in 2014,
has failed
to deliver a single home, analysis by the Independent has found.
Full briefing: LGA
responds to Autumn Budget 2017
Budget 2017:
councils react to no extra children's services funding
Budget 2017:
councils respond to announcement of new funding for NHS
Budget 2017: LGA
responds to greener transport measures
Budget 2017: LGA
responds to Universal Credit announcement
Budget 2017: LGA
responds to cultural development fund announcement
Budget 2017: LGA
responds to housing measures
Budget 2017: LGA
responds to devolution deals
Councils ready
for winter with 1.5 million tonnes of salt stockpiled
LGA responds to
changes to broadband speed advertising guidance
The
Local Government Association is holding a peer training event on Tuesday 23rd
January 2018 in London for elected member peers such as health and wellbeing board chairs and public health & adult
social care portfolio holders interested in being part of a peer challenge team
helping system leaders with locally driven improvement.
A team of peers are invited by a system to spend up to 3 days ‘holding
up the mirror’ to the opportunities and challenges that the system is
facing. They talk to a range of people
and highlight things that could be improved.
Peers champion change and recognise the achievements of places they are
invited into, spending 3
days on-site undertaking interviews, focus groups and visits. Before they leave
the peer team delivers a constructive but challenging feedback session to local
leaders and stakeholders.
The peer challenge approach is well established within local government as a proven
improvement process.
The system wide
care & health peer challenge is
funded by the Department of Health through the LGA’s Care & Health
Improvement Programme.
For further
information please contact kay.burkett@local.gov.uk or phone 07909 534126.
To register your place on the training day, please
contact kate.biddlecombe@local.gov.uk
Stoke-on-Trent council called ‘callous’ as they propose £1,000
fines for homeless people sleeping in tents.
"The
Lancashire Combined Authority is truly dead"
- Lancashire County Council and Ribble Valley Council leaders walk out.
By-election results from 23 November 2017
Cotswold DC, Grumbolds Ash & Avening
Con 420 [64.7%; -6.8%]
LD 136 [21.0%; -7.5%]
Lab 93 [14.3%; +14.3%]
Conservative hold
Dover DC, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
Con 750
[70.5%; +17.7%]
Lab 314 [29.5%; +7.6%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -25.4%]]
Conservative hold
Herefordshire UA, Bishops Frome & Cradley
Grn 471
[45.3%; +13.9%]
Con 299 [28.8%; -39.8%]
LD 251 [251; +24.1%]
Lab 19 [1.8%; +1.8%]
Green gain from
Conservative
Leicester UA, Eyres Monsell
Lab 556
[53.2%; +10.6%]
LD 320 [30.6%; +23.1%]
Con 170 [16.3%; -1.9%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -25.8%]]
Grn 0 [[0.0%; -6.0%]]
Labour hold
Neath Port Talbot UA, Bryncoch South
PC 525
[49.5%; +4.5%]
Lab 306 [28.8%; +4.5%]
Con 105 [9.9%; -9.5%]
LD 92 [8.7%; +3.3%]
UKIP 33 [3.1%; +3.1%]
Grn 0 [[0.0%; -5.8]]
Plaid Cymru hold
Stockton-on-Tees UA, Parkfield & Oxbridge
Lab 727 [54.7%; +2.2%]
Con 409 [30.8%; -1.1%]
Ind 156 [11.7%; +11.7]
LD 37 [2.8%; -2.9%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -9.9%]]
Labour hold
Stroud DC, Chalford
Con 751 [45.2%; +13.1%]
Lab 421 [25.4%; -2.3%]
Grn 342 [20.6%; -7.4%]
LD 146 [8.8%; +8.8%]
Conservative hold
Wakefield MB, Wakefield West
Lab 1118 [49.6%; +0.6%]
Con 933 [41.4%; +11.2]
YP 156 [6.9%; +6.9%]
LD 46 [2.0%; -4.1%]
Labour hold
By-elections taking
place on 30 November 2017
Maidstone BC, North
Gosport BC, Bridgemary North Ward
Tandridge DC, Westway
Torridge DC, Torrington
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