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The
nomination process for appointments to the LGA Boards 2018/19 is now open. All
details can be found on the LGA
Labour website.
If
you are interested in applying to a position on an LGA
Policy Board, the LGA Leadership
Board, Councillors
Forum, or a Workforce
Employer Body, we would encourage you to read the policy
board descriptions and
role
descriptions.
Members
are required to complete an application form and submit it with a 250 word
supporting statement. It is important to outline all your experience and areas
of interest to enable us to make the most effective appointments to policy
leadership positions at the LGA.
You
will find the application
form here. We will
require consent from your Group Leader - a consent form is included in the
application form.
Applications
will close at 5pm on Friday 6 July 2018. Successful nominations will be
announced on Monday 23 July 2017.
Appointments
are made by the elected Labour Group Officers, using the principles outlined on
the LGA
Labour website.
Please
note: We are only able to accept nominations by email. Please email your
completed self-nomination form to lewis.addlington-lee@local.gov.uk
Manchester’s vision for the industrial area around Mayfield will see a new green space created alongside thousands of homes and new hotels
Plymouth is set to become a gleaming modern shopping destination with its city centre packed with new attractions, hotels and £53 million leisure complex
Leicester's suffragette to feature in Westminster exhibition
A campaign led by Greenwich Council and local residents has secured a new much needed bus route through the Borough
New services launched to prevent homelessness in Oxford
The NHS is now in a year round crisis – Jonathan Ashworth
Response to IFS research on junk food
marketing - Sharon
Hodgson
Millions forced to rely on high-cost
credit – Peter Dowd
1.3 million patients forced to move
surgeries exposes primary care crisis
– Jonathan Ashworth
A two-day conference organised in partnership with
Cardiff Harbour Authority and The Maritime Heritage Trust took place reflecting on
Cardiff's maritime heritage and the role it has played in shaping Cardiff Bay and
the future of its economic and cultural development.
LGA responds
to Children’s Commissioner’s report on children in care
LGA
responds to end of year report on NHS finances
LGA
responds to report on emergency hospital admissions
LGA responds
to AGE UK survey on home care
Leaving the
EU without access to reciprocal intelligence will weaken our ability to protect
public health and the economy
LGA
responds to Health and Social Committee report on child obesity
LGA
responds to ONS figures on teenage pregnancies
22,000
children severely obese when they leave primary school
LGA
responds to special educational needs funding announcement
Caroline Lucas to step down as Green party co-leader
Conservatives
under fire for failing to tackle party's Islamophobia. Sayeeda
Warsi backs Muslim Council of Britain’s call for inquiry over ‘more than weekly
incidents’
Tory Councillor
suspended after ‘posting Islamophobic comments about
Sadiq Khan on Facebook’
Caroline Walsh, a candidate in Eltham North in the 2018
Local Elections, is looking for councillors and council candidates who define
as disabled to share their experiences of being a candidate with a disability –
this will feed into constructive learning and recommendations for the future
for local parties to help make their campaigning more accessible. If you would
like to share your experiences, please email lewis.addlington-lee@local.gov.uk.
Saturday 23
June 2018, 09:30-16:30 (followed by drinks reception on roof terrace).
Local
Government Association, 18 Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HZ.
The LGA Labour
Group will be holding an event for new London Labour councillors:
The day will be
a mix of plenary and breakout sessions. Speakers include:
- Cllr Clare Coghill, - Leader Waltham Forest and
LGA London Rep
- Cllr Lib Peck - Leader of Lambeth and Deputy
Leader of the LGA Labour Group
- Mark Lloyd - Chief Executive, Local Government
Association
- Andrew Gwynne MP - Shadow Communities and Local
Government Secretary
- Ayesha Hazarika and Marie Le Conte – building up
a media profile
- Cllr Alice Perry – NEC rep
- Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (tbc)
- Mayor of Lewisham, Damien Egan
- Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz OBE
Please note that this event is only open to newly elected London
Labour Councillors elected for the first time on Thursday 3 May 2018.
The event is
likely to be oversubscribed and will be on a first come, first served
basis. The LGA is currently in the process of updating the list of
councillors but for now we would be grateful if you could pass this on to new
members in your authority.
To register new
councillors should email lewis.addlington-lee@local.gov.uk with their name and authority.
As part of
the National Cyber Security Strategy (2016 – 2020), the LGA has been awarded
funding by the Cabinet Office to ensure that councils are as resilient against
cyber-attacks as possible.
This
has been agreed with them on the basis of a phased approach. The first phase
will begin in early summer, when every council in England will receive an
invitation to complete an online ‘stocktake’ questionnaire concerning their
cyber security arrangements. Each organisation will have until 31st
August to complete this.
This
week, the LGA’s Chief Executive Mark Lloyd has written to every council Chief
Executive in England highlighting the stocktake and asking them to nominate a
lead contact who can collate their organisation’s response.
By
collecting this information, we aim to:
- capture existing cyber security arrangements
in every council
- identify good practice – and those councils
delivering it
- identify risks – and those councils at risk.
From the
autumn, the findings and analysis from this work will inform where and how we
target support to the sector, including recruiting peers for sector-led
support, and granting funding to individual councils. Councils will be able to
bid for grant funding to undertake an agreed activity or piece of work which
will improve their cyber security, based on the findings from the stocktake.
This will also be open to the Warning, Advice and Reporting Points (WARPs). We
will advise councils on how to bid for this later on in the year.
Participation across local government will allow us to develop a clear
view of where strengths and weaknesses lie across our sector and deliver the
support needed. Please encourage your organisation to first name a lead
contact, and then take part in the stocktake. Find out more at: https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/efficiency-and-income-generation/cyber-security/lga-cyber-security-stocktake or email helen.reeves@local.gov.uk with any queries.
The Co-op Party
would like to invite you to their 'Being the Difference' Conference on 9
June in Central London.
This is an opportunity for councillors, Party members and
officers interested in local government policy to share ideas and hear
inspiring examples of campaigns and initiatives.
You'll also be able to learn more about ways that you can put co-operative
solutions into practice in your own community.
Speakers include: Jim McMahon MP, Cllr Georgia Gould, Cllr Matthew
Brown, Cllr Olivia Blake, Cllr James Lewis, GMB, Keep it
Local, Generation Rent, Community Energy England, amongst others.
This year's conference is sponsored by the London Co-operative Party and
tickets costs just £10 - click here to book your place.
Labour for a
People’s Vote are campaigning for Labour to support a public vote on
the government’s Brexit deal, and are keen to work with councillors across the
country. If you’d like to get involved or find our more email Mike
Buckley at mike@labourpeoplesvote.org, go to labourpeoplesvote.org or follow @labpeoplesvote.
There were no
by-elections on 31st May
By-elections
taking place on 7 June:
- East
Staffordshire BC – Crown
- Mid Devon BC – Cranmore
- South Oxfordshire DC – Benson and Crowmarsh
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