First published at the MJ. At the recent MJ Future Forum the top question on the lines, between the lines, and sometimes hanging in the Zoom like a bad smell, was ‘why doesn’t central government “get’” local government?’. These are some reasons that I hear a lot of the time: 1. What they do is…
Category: local councils
Introducing the Improvement and Development Board
This article appears in the November 2017 edition of The Clerk – the newsletter of the Society of Local Council Clerks. Terminology: within the sector Town and Parish Councils are referred to as “Local Councils” with their larger brethren which people may more instantly think of as local authorities known as “principal authorities”. My…
Town Councils – 2
After my fictional blog looking back at the success of a Town Council from the vantage point of 2015 I was delighted recently when someone pointed out this – Frome Town Council’s strategic plan is written in a similar way to the blog. It would be nice to think that the blog was mildly influential in…
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