Councils need a voice in the Brexit negotiations, more devolution deals and full retention of Business Rates.
Skills and training programmes, partly financed by the European Social Fund, are highly centralised and inefficient.
Many thousands took part in events around the country.
Vaping has left public health programmes increasingly ineffective.
We have lobbied the Chancellor hard and it’s achieved results.
There is a mixed picture but the Government is listening to our concerns.
Drastic changes are needed to a lobby group that has served as an apologist for failure.
Yet again the Local Government Association defends the indefensible.
Power must flow down to towns, districts, counties, cities and individuals,
One way of financing this would be to cancel their sub to the Local Government Association.
In 2010 the LGA said cuts would “inevitably” mean cuts in services – but since then resident satisfaction with council services has risen
The Local Government Association Labour Group have issued a disgraceful defence of taxpayer funded gold-plated pensions to councillors. This is in response to the Government's consultation on proposals to scrap them. Labour's LGA Group are keen to point out their stance is representative. They say they "wrote to all Labour Councillors and the response from […]
The Municipal Journal reports (£): "The Local Government Association (LGA) has been dealt a severe blow to its finances in the Budget, with the news its funds will be slashed by £2.2m in less than two weeks' time. The Association’s top-slice cash – the money that comes directly from central government grant – was due […]
Eric Pickles is interviewed for the House magazine's latest issue and offers the sharpest criticism I have yet seen from him of the Local Government Association. Rejecting their claims that spending cuts are "unsustainable", he says: "I kind of understand that the LGA are sort of a trade union organisation..They are the voice of the […]
One of the welcome aspects of the demise of the Audit Commission was the scrapping of the requirement for councils to ask intrusive, irrelevant questions about our sex lives. The Government has confirmed to councils that there is no longer any excuse to carry out this offensive exercise. Soon after we took control of Hammersmoth […]