19 Jan 2011
| by Polly Rance
Just before Christmas, the Communities and Local Government Select Committee launched an enquiry...to localism. CLG minister Grant Shapps appeared before the committee to defend the Government s position ...
. There is a direct democratic contract at the heart of local government: councillors are elected to oversee ...
to the Government s proposals. Polly Rance, vice-chair CIPR Local Public Services Committee ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association has appointed Hillingdon Council's well-connected comms head...of candidates, but David's expertise in local government shone through he is just the right person to lead ...
feel very happy that I am leaving them in capable hands.
Holdstock is a well-known figure in local government comms. He is chair of LGcommunications, the nationwide group of local authority comms ...
13 Jan 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association (LGA) will make about 13 PR staff redundant as it takes the first..., and Paul Comer to programme director for local government comms. The restructuring will see all LGA Group organisations centralised under a single comms function. This includes the LGA, IDeA, Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services and Leadership Centre Local Government Employers. In November, Wilton explained ...
01 Sep 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association has taken the decision not to hire a replacement group director...two new additions in recent weeks.
Local government minister Grant Shapps responded: 'I welcome ...
economic times and exercises some prudence. The era of excess in local government is over. Councils can ...
and public affairs, said: We re conscious of the pressure on local authority resources ...
17 Dec 2009
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association (LGA) has hit out at the AA for issuing a press release
07 Sep 2009
| by David Singleton
The Local Government Association has appointed a former Tory adviser to head up its lobbying work
30 Jun 2010
| by David Singleton
of council publications, following last week's attack on 'the weekly town hall Pravdas' by Local Government...welcome the Government s moves to clarify the rules, but warn that it will not solve the problems of local ...
to the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity, which was relaxed in 2001 to allow councils ...
Satchwell said: This is the new politics working, good news indeed. This is an important decision for local ...
13 Dec 2010
| by David Woods
With local government expecting the worst cuts to funding since the end of the Second World War...charities and community groups do more if local government isn t able to talk to and with them? She ...
into shared services functions, but the Local Government Association declined to comment until the individual ...
financial settlement for local Government.' ...
01 Dec 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
The head of comms at the New Local Government Network is set to take an agency job aimed at helping...newly created local government futures unit.
Hulme, who has headed the think-tank s branding ...
Government futures team will advise clients on developing relationships with local authorities and their partners and how to interpret and work with the Government s localism agenda.
Hulme said: The localism ...
09 Feb 2011
| by Alex Aiken
opportunities for local and central government communicators....the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and councils. It appears that the public are simply ...
involvement in local authorities have declined. The perceived handling of the Christmas snow crisis appears ...
meetings which will set local tax for the year. First, the news that confidence in local authorities ...
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