Topic: Relational constitutions
Dudley Council
Dudley Council has embarked on its first full-scale constitutional review in over 20 years to address governance challenges and improve organisational adherence. Partnering with CfGS, the Council is aiming to streamline its Constitution, increasing awareness and accountability across all departments.
“Docking in”: changing the way we act on local democracy
A guide for rethinking how local decisions get made – and the changes that we might need to make in local democracy after the pandemic.
“Docking-in”: making traditional governance fit for purpose in a hyper-localist world
More councils are starting to experiment with different forms of decision-making. The emergence of mutual aid networks at the outset of the pandemics – agile, highly local, groups of neighbours getting together at street level to offer immediate help to the vulnerable – contrasts unfavourably with the lumbering setup of the national, NHS-led volunteering scheme. […]