Please save the date of next year’s Labour Local
Government Conference 2019 in your diary! It will take place at The Slate,
Warwick University. The details are:
Friday 8 February 2019, 19.30 – 22.30hrs
Drinks reception and dinner
Labour Local Government Conference Saturday 9 February 2019, 09.30 – 17.00hrs Run jointly by the Association of Labour Councillors
(ALC) and the LGA Labour Group, the event is an opportunity for the Labour
local government family to meet and hear from keynote speakers, and to debate
policies, discuss campaigning ideas, and attend training relevant to Labour
councillors. We will be advertising
details of how to book your place soon including how to book accommodation, but
for now please save the date.
A record
number of responses were received when Labour-run Southampton Council ran a
consultation on the introduction of a Clean Air Zone.
Government intervention in Tower Hamlets
has now formally ended thanks to
the work of Labour’s Mayor John Biggs in cleaning up the mess left by disgraced
independent Mayor Lutfur Rahman
Camden
Council is the latest council to debate whether there should be a People’s Vote on the terms of the Brexit deal, and Tower Hamlets has backed the call
Labour
mayors demand control of EU cash after Brexit
Sheffield Council is the latest
Labour council to sign up to the Coop Party’s Charter Against Modern Slavery
Andrew Gwynne MP responds to new warning by
local government leaders that Council budgets will be cut by a third next
year
Tinkering at the edges will not solve social care
crisis – Barbara Keeley MP
May’s austerity
claim is a con if Hammond does not cancel cuts
Schools still facing a
funding crisis – Angela Rayner MP
Three vacancies
for balancing members on the LGA Fire Commission have arisen for Labour
members, so we are asking councillors who are members of Fire Authorities to
self-nominate themselves if they wish to become members.
The Fire
Commission provides a forum to discuss matters of common interest and concern
to fire authorities. Combined fire and rescue authorities and principal
authorities with a fire and rescue service each nominate a member to represent
them, and additional members from fire authorities are appointed by the
political groups to ensure political balance.
These
roles will require attendances at meetings in London and in other parts of the
country. Travel and subsistence costs incurred in attending
Committee/Commission meetings are met by the member’s home authority. If you
currently sit on a Fire Authority and are interested in nominating yourself
please email lewis.addlington-lee@local.gov.uk
All Labour
supporters are welcome to attend this event, run by the English Labour Network.
Sat 20 Oct, 10am at Civic Hall (East Room), Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 1UR
Join shadow
cabinet minister Jon Trickett MP, Rachel Reeves MP, Leeds Council Leader Judith
Blake and the English Labour Network's John Denham to discuss how Labour can do
more to reach voters in Yorkshire, particularly working class voters and those
beyond the major cities. RSVP here.
Migration and Change – LG, Friday 19th
October
The LGA is
running a free event (for member councils) looking at how councils can improve
insight around migration and change in communities. Trevor Phillips (broadcaster
and commentator) and Richard Webber (originator of Mosaic and Acorn) have
produced a powerful tool to help map communities in real time, which could be
vital for community cohesion work, and which has already been applied with
several local authorities. Hear the
story of how it can help you and participate in the key debate on cohesion and
integration.
Improve
your council’s cyber resilience – Wednesday 7 November 2018
You are
invited to a free event hosted by the LGA. Delegates will hear the high level
findings of the LGA Cyber Security Stocktake; a snapshot study of the cyber
security arrangements in place across all councils in England, providing an
understanding of the strengths and weaknesses across the sector.
Delegates
will also hear from the LGA about how to use their own council’s stocktake
assessment to bid for funding to improve their organisation’s cyber resilience.
You will also hear from key partners – including the National Cyber Security
Centre, the police and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local
Government – about the free resources they also have available to support
councils. Council delegates should go away armed with a range of steps they can
take to improve their cyber resilience.
LGA responds to scrapping of the housing
borrowing cap
LGA responds to Government announcement
on funding for social care
Response to government launch of FGM
awareness campaign
Response to Centre for Ageing Better
report on home adaptions
LGA responds to Sajid Javid announcement
on funding to tackle serious violence
Conservative London Mayor candidate is quickly out of the blocks in his bid to be an even worse candidate than
Zac Goldsmith
Sex text MP Andrew Griffiths facing new inquiry over possible rule breach
UKIP MEP resigns with scathing warning that the
party is seen as "vehicle for hate towards Muslims and the gay community"
By-elections held on 4th
October:
Chesterfield BC, Moor
LD
532 [47.1%; +12.1%]
Lab
445 [39.4%; -9.9%]
Con
84 [7.4%; -8.3%]
UKIP
69 [6.1%; +6.1%]
Lib
Dem gain from Labour
Cambridgeshire CC,
Soham North and Isleham
Con
858 [48.8%; -17.4%]
LD
527 [30.0%; +12.5%]
Lab
191 [10.9%; -5.5%]
Ind
184 [10.4%; +10.4%]
Conservative
hold
Hambleton DC, Thirsk
Con
679 [65.4%; -0.4%]
Lab
251 [24.2%; +24.2%]
Yorkshire
Party 108 [10.4%; +10.4%]
Conservative
hold
By-elections on 11th October:
Halton
UA, Ditton
West
Lancashire BC, Tanhouse
Warrington
UA, Penketh and Cuerdley
Hartlepool
UA, Hart
Adur
DC, Southlands
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