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There has been a phenomenal
response to the new ‘Breaking Point’ campaign we launched last Friday – over 3500 Labour
councillors have now signed up!
The Tories have pushed our
councils to Breaking Point - and we need every Labour councillor to join
together to say that enough is enough. We’re demanding that the Prime Minister
and Chancellor truly end austerity in local government by:
- Using the Budget to
reverse next years planned £1.3bn cut to council budgets;
- Immediately investing £2bn
in children’s services and £2bn in adult social care to stop these vital
emergency services from collapsing;
- Pledging to use the
Spending Review to restore council funding to 2010 levels over the next four
years
If you haven’t yet added
your name please take a moment to do so now – just click
here.
We will be presenting the
Breaking Point petition to Downing Street on 18th October, ahead of the Budget
on 29th October, and including your name will demonstrate to your local members, residents, and communities that
you are demanding a real end to austerity in local government.
Yours sincerely,
Cllr Nick Forbes
Leader of the LGA Labour group
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
Saturday 9 February 2019, 09.30 – 17.00hrs
Labour Local Government Conference
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.
Leeds
Council has partnered with Telcom Group to provide free Wi-Fi to social housing residents as part of ongoing efforts to combat digital
exclusion
Islington Council
and City Hall housing chiefs call on surveyors to stop developers skimping on affordable
homes
Gedling
Council to remove burial fees for all children under 18
Warrington
to become the first local authority to be powered
entirely by solar
Bradford
Council is teaming up with the LGA and NHS Digital to pioneer an opportunity in
Adult Social Care that utilises artificial
intelligence
Debbie
Wilcox, leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, has responded to the
announcement that Welsh councils are facing cash cuts for next two years
Jeremy
Corbyn MP pays tribute to the Fire
Brigades Union at Centenary Service
£7
billion leached away from social care funding by austerity-obsessed
Government – Barbara Keeley MP
Tories
hitting young people with punitive Universal Credit
sanctions
– Margaret Greenwood MP
Years
of austerity have pushed families into worryingly high levels of household debt – Peter Dowd MP
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.
The Housing
Crisis, fracking, land banking and lack of access to modern technologies, are
just some of the significant issues that affect our local communities. The
Planning Commission has been created to combat this, as the Labour Party feels
that the planning system needs to rediscover its vision and once again reflect
the needs of communities, from rural to urban. The Planning Commission aims to
help revive neighbourhoods and town centres in decline, and address the urgent
need for better infrastructure.
The Planning
Commission are holding a regional meeting with Liverpool City Council at Liverpool, Cunard Building, Water Street,
Liverpool, L3 1DS on 25 October and are encouraging local councillors
to attend the meeting from 16:00-17:15.
If you would
like to attend the meeting, please rsvp to labourplanningcommission@gmail.com
LGA responds to Theresa May's announcement on mental
health and suicide
Response to homelessness funding announcement
LGA responds to report by Think Local Act Personal
and the Coalition for Collaborative Care
LGA responds to NHS Digital figures from the National
Child Measurement Programme
LGA responds to CQC State of Care report
LGA: Almost £1 billion of European Social Fund at
risk of being sent back to Brussels
Eight in ten retailers selling knives to children in
some areas, councils reveal
LGA responds to IFG public finances Performance
Tracker
LGA responds to government's loneliness strategy
Green Party urges
activists to try to win votes from BNP supporters
Tory
Westminster councillor resigns after hospitality inquiry
By-elections held on 11 October:
Adur DC, Southlands
Con 395
[40.5%; +10.6%]
Lab 448 [45.9%; +16.9%]
Green 132 [13.5%; +13.5%]
[Lib Dem 69 [9.8%; -9.8%]]
[UKIP 52 [31.2%; -31.2%]]
Labour gain from UKIP
Hartlepool UA, Hart
Con 200
[13.8%; -3.4%]
Lab 582 [40.2%; +1.5%]
Green 27 [1.9%; +1.9%]
Ind 637 [44.1%; +0.1%]
Ind gain from Labour
Warrington UA, Penketh
and Cuerdley
LD 100
[4.6%; -3.3%]
Con 479 [22.1%; -19.2%]
Lab 691 [31.8%; -19.0%]
Green 47 [2.2%; +2.2%]
UKIP 69 [3.2%; +3.2%]
Ind 784 [36.1%; +36.1%]
Ind gain from Labour
West Lancashire BC,
Tanhouse
Lab 464
[72.3%; -12.8%]
Ind 129 [20.1%; +20.1%]
Con 49 [7.6%; -7.3%]
Lab Hold
Halton UA, Ditton
LD 97
[11.1%; +11.1%]
Con 135 [15.4%; +15.4%]
Lab 644 [73.5%; +11.6%]
[Ind 575-38.1%; -38.1%]
Lab Hold
By-elections on 18 October:
Hackney LB, Victoria
Oxfordshire CC, Iffley Fields and St. Mary’s
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