News & events

  It's an exciting time for us here at CfGS. Not just because we've opened our secret Santa presents, but because we’re moving our recognition...

Devolution is gathering pace in England. True, I could have started a blog with that line at any point in the last eighteen months,...

  It's that time of year. The clocks have changed, the days are getting shorter, traditional Christmas music enhances our shopping experience...Soon we can expect...

  Over the summer the Government announced plans to set up a Commission to review the freedom of information regime.This could have been an opportunity...

 Schools are at the heart of our communities yet the distance between the head teacher’s office and the town hall seems further apart than...

  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...

  “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....