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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Virtual insanity: Councils hit out at refusal to extend meeting rules
By Heather Jameson | 26 March 2021
Councils will not be able to hold virtual council meetings after 6 May after the Government refus...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Legal battle or virtual meetings fast-tracked to meet May deadline
By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2021
The legal battle to allow virtual meetings to continue after 6 May has taken a step forward after...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
We need to hear everyone's voice
By Dan Corry | 16 March 2021
Apparent attempts to stifle the voice of civil society are bad for all of us, says Dan Corry - an...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA urges rethink on virtual meetings
By Heather Jameson | 09 March 2021
The Local Government Association’s chairman has urged ministers to pave the way for virtual counc...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Damaging democracy through codes of conduct
By Colin Copus | 09 March 2021
Colin Copus makes the case for codes of conduct for councillors to be localised rather than natio...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The problem with polls
By Peter Stanyon | 09 March 2021
Peter Stanyon outlines the risks and pressures Super Thursday poses to a ‘creaking electoral syst...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Jenrick warned of legal action over end to virtual meetings
By Dan Peters | 25 February 2021
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has been served a pre-action letter warning of legal ac...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
We need to better capture the impact of community power
By Luca Tiratelli | 23 February 2021
New Local's latest report forensically and persuasively shows community power works, and now we n...
WHITEHALL
Calls to vaccinate election workers grow
By Dan Peters | 22 February 2021
Pressure is growing for key election workers to be prioritised in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout af...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The problem with polls
By Martin Ford | 17 February 2021
Local government has finally learned that two years’ worth of elections will take place on ‘Super...
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