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Latest News
LGiU to take on CarbonLimited project
11/10/08 The LGiU is taking over the CarbonLimited project from the RSA this week. LGiU's Centre for Local Sustainability, led by Dr Andy Johnston, will be unveiling a new programme of activities in the New Year. Matt Prescott, CarbonLimited's project director at the RSA, will remain involved in the project as a member of its advisory group.
The LGiU is currently operating a virtual trading scheme for councils, structured to comply with future UK legislation. In the New Year, this work will be expanded through a new scheme Carbon Trading Yorkshire in partnership with Carbon Action Yorkshire. As part of this delivery an upgrade to the CarbonLimited website will take place to facilitate improved carbon management and trading.
The new phase of CarbonLimited will focus on the development of Community Carbon Trading and the LGiU will continue to support the existing online communities. The first new project aims to connect local government schemes to the grassroots.
This Month's Events
Duty to involve: Achieving fairness and equality
13/11/2008
Participatory budgeting: the why and the how
27/11/2008
CSN Annual Conference: Every Child Matters five years on: a brighter future?
13/11/2008
Older People's Services: Never too late for living
19/11/2008
Physical activity by children and young people: Full of beans, or couch potatoes?
18/11/2008
Intergenerational practice - addressing national and local priorities
25/11/2008
Fear of crime: councils closing the gap
24/11/2008
Accommodation and care leavers - pulling together
28/11/2008
Latest Analysis
Marine proposals threaten local planning powers
Media Release 08/10/08 The LGiU and the LGA are joining forces to warn that draft proposals for the Marine Bill could represent another transfer of powers away from local authorities. The proposal to create a new regulator, the Marine Management Organisation (MM0), could signal a further transfer of powers from councils to a non-democratic agency. The LGiU and the LGA fear it could lead to a loss of council planning powers around ports, and a loss of licensing would lead to a lack of accountability and transparency in decision making.
New role for local government in tackling worklessness
29/07/08 Last week, the government set out its proposals for the next stages in its programme for welfare reform in the Green Paper No-One Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility. The reforms will have profound impacts across a range of local government services, including adult social care, children's services, and drug action. LGiU policy analyst Andrew Jones said: "Local government, as a multi-service provider, is ideally placed to tackle the multifaceted and complex problems of worklessness."
Four tests to strengthen police accountability
21/07/08 The LGiU has set out four tests for proposals to increase police accountability in the police reform green paper. While welcoming the recent green paper, From the neighbourhood to the national, LGiU chief executive Andy Sawford called for the Home Office to consider bolder progress towards reform.
Flagship policy rocked by launch
26/06/08 The National Challenge programme - set up to help raise GCSE results in all schools - got off to a very shaky start. The media largely ignored the core support package of the programme. Instead they branded schools where fewer than 30 per cent of pupils gain 5 A*-C GCSEs as 'failing' and threatened with closure - damaging the very schools and pupils that the programme is intended to help. Martin Rogers, policy consultant with the LGiU's Children's Services Network looks at what happened.
Latest Publications
Operational Interdependence: the case for a locally commissioned police force (LGiU)
13/10/2008
This LGiU discussion paper suggests a systematic framework for developing a model for improved local democratic accountability for the police, and offers our recommendations for change. This is a companion piece to our response to the 2008 Policing Green Paper. That response is also available to download from this page.
Never Too Late for Living: final report of the APPG inquiry into services for older people (LGiU)
22/7/2008
This is the report of the All Party Parliamentary Local Government Inquiry in to services for older people. The inquiry was chaired by Clive Betts MP and supported by the LGiU. It looked at how the place of older people in society can be improved over the next decade within the context of rapid demographic change, rising expectations and increasing financial constraint.
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