Podcast: Get growing with community gardens
This week Ingrid Koehler talks with LGIU’s Alice Creasy about the benefits of community gardening and gives a taste of our brand new Global Local Recap.
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What can UK authorities learn from Australia’s approach to parenting support?
Parenting and balancing work and family life are at the top of the agenda in the UK. What can UK local authorities learn from the…
Australia, England & Wales, Global, Ireland
The changing job of running elections
With less than two months until 4th May polls, electoral administrators at over 200 local authorities across England are heads down, preparing for the election…
England & Wales
All Things Local Government Ireland – Are council animal control teams the modern-day St Patrick?
While Saturday Night Live’s epitomised the need for international sanctions on Irish-American jokes, this edition of All Things Ireland takes a special look at what…
Ireland
Insights into sustaining European urban agriculture projects
How can municipalities make urban farming projects thrive in the long term? This blog covers lessons from project leaders in Greece, Portugal and Bulgaria that range from cutting-edge digital mapping to creative ways to nourish soil.
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Medway’s journey to improved children’s services
Dr Lee-Anne Farach, Director of People at LGIU member Medway Council, writes for us about the recent progress the council has made in improving its children’s services provision.
England & Wales
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It’s not all about the money
In his latest column for The Municipal Journal, Jonathan Carr-West examines how to achieve a successful reform of social care and reflects on why progress has stalled in the decade since the publication of the Dilnot Report.
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What did Euro 2020 tell us about our ongoing failure to tackle racism in society and what lessons can we learn from it?
Peter Smith, LGIU Commissioning Editor – England, explores historical and contemporary racism in football and how sport can be used to educate communities and the children in them to help us move forward.
England & Wales
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Global challenges, local solutions: the new LGIU free weekly newsletter
Find out more about our new free newsletter the Global Local Recap – sharing local innovations to global challenges.
Australia, England & Wales, Global, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa
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Covid-WIRED: Mapping the evidence on the unequal wellbeing impacts of the pandemic
The Covid Wellbeing Inequalities Research Evidence Dashboard is a new and unique online dashboard looking at emerging research on the impact of the pandemic on different populations and outcomes. Joanne Smithson explains how local government can make use of the data to reduce local inequalities and improve wellbeing.
England & Wales, Global, Scotland
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How a child rights impact assessment can deliver better decision-making for children
Naomi Danquah, Programme Director, Child Friendly Cities and Communities, UK Committee for UNICEF discusses the need to include children and young people when policy decisions are made and how local authorities can make that happen.
England & Wales, Global, Scotland
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Renewed interest in devolution? Don’t hold your breath
When it comes to levelling up and devolution, the Prime Minister is hamstrung, as many others before him, because he can’t or won’t accept that central, not local, government is the problem.
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LGIU Fortnightly: County devolution and Buckinghamshire leader Martin Tett
In this episode, Ingrid Koehler speaks with Cllr Martin Tett, leader of the new unitary Buckinghamshire Council, about the process of local government reorganisation and leading a newly-formed council through the pandemic. Jonathan Carr-West and Ingrid also discuss the latest LGIU and local government news as well as local government portmanteaus and neologisms.
England & Wales, Global
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