Category: Blog
Reflecting on #localgovcamp and the Local Democracy Maker Day
Last Friday I was a local democracy maker. The Local Democracy Maker Day is a fringe event held the day before the ever popular, and never-not-unhashtagged #localgovcamp (which is a sort of self-assembly conference and meetup for local government types). The purpose of the maker day is to chew over some big challenges […]
Launching our campaign on devolution
“Getting the governance right” for devolution isn’t about bureaucracy, or a sideshow distracting us from the real prize of more power for combined authorities. Good governance is in fact central to making those arrangements work. The next nine months will see us playing an active part in providing support to combined authorities in […]