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LGC Confidence Survey: Support for further scrutiny
Oct 4, 2024 · More than half of respondents to the LGC Confidence Survey agree there is a need for greater oversight of councils, with 67% in favour of greater national oversight of local government audit. Some 55% of respondents said councils need greater oversight, while 36% said they did not. LGC’s survey was conducted in late July and early August.
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Watch LGC Events | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Explore this section of LGC to watch presentations, speeches, interviews and celebrations from our previous conferences and awards. Click on an article to watch the session. WEBINAR: How councils can help deliver successful regeneration projects. WEBINAR: How to speed up electric vehicle ...
The Local Authority Podcast - Local Government Chronicle (LGC)
The Local Authority is the leading local government podcast from LGC. Each month we bring together leaders and changemakers from within and around local government to discuss the most significant social challenges facing the sector. Each episode is produced with a …
New government should tread carefully on LGPS reforms
Jul 24, 2024 · The new government must tread carefully, and concentrate on creating better investment opportunities in the UK rather than dictating targets. Its predecessor put increasing pressure on the LGPS to invest in its preferred asset classes and geographies. It knew it was unlikely to be in power in 10 years’ time if this resulted in pension funds ...
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How Lincolnshire streamlined long and short-term highways maintenance. Chair of the independent Child Safeguarding Practice. LGC: politics and policy – news, comment and analysis from Local Government Chronicle covering devolution, economic growth, finance, service reform, efficiency, governance and structure, and workforce issues.
DLUHC renamed to drop ‘levelling up’ - Local Government …
Jul 9, 2024 · The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has been renamed as the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), removing what the new government described as a “slogan” from the previous administration. Between 2018 and 2021, the department had been known as MHCLG until Boris Johnson renamed it DLUHC in September ...
Skills reform is essential to deliver economic growth
1 day ago · Skills reform is essential to deliver economic growth. A renewed approach to lifelong learning is needed for sustained economic growth, writes head of content Kirsty Weakley. CCN: £190m less for counties with deprivation allocation approach. Clare Moriarty: Maximise impact through collaboration with charities. Growth and investment is front ...
McMahon promises to rebuild council finances ‘from scratch’
Oct 29, 2024 · The local government minister promised to rebuild the financial foundations of local government "from scratch" in a Commons' debate yesterday. Speaking in parliament yesterday, Jim McMahon suggested that the government would focus on aligning funding with deprivation levels, through an “initial rescue operation” in this year’s financial ...
Ian Fytche: Incrementalism no longer cuts it for councils
Oct 11, 2024 · A net zero future. We are way off track in achieving our goals on climate change. We need to see a minimum 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if we are to stand even a 50% chance of remaining within the Paris Agreement aspiration for no more than a 1.5C increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels by 2100.