Tuesday 16th March 2004 – Central London Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister for Local and Regional Government, ODPM Dr Wendy Thomson, Prime Minister’s Adviser, Office of Public Services Reform Professor Julian Le Grand, Advisor to the Prime Minister Ben Page, Director, MORI Research Institute Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, NCVO Dr Adam Lent, Author of [...]

A new report launched this week by independent think tank, the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has revealed the extent to which local authorities in the UK have much to learn from their US counterparts when using Information Communications Technology (ICT) in local decision making processes. But the report author, Dr Perri 6 adds that [...]

Thursday 4 March 2004 – Inmarsat Conference Centre, 99 City Road, EC1 Keynote address: Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP Minister for Local and Regional Government, ODPM The establishment of long-term contracts with external organisations and private companies to provide a broad range of local services is becoming increasingly common in local government. Launching the final [...]

A new report launched this week by independent think-tank, the New Local Government Network (NLGN) will suggest that the experience of the UK’s ‘First Eleven’ mayoral authorities at the ‘mid-term’ stage is a broadly positive one; and recommend that the Government should consider widening an experiment that has made local political leadership more visible and [...]

A new report by independent think-tank, the New Local Government Network (NLGN) and with a foreword by the Prime Minister’s Head of Policy aims to bring clarity to the sometimes bad-tempered debates concerning ‘New Localism’ and the institutional form of local governance. Since ‘New Localism’ entered UK policy debates through the publication in 2002 of [...]

Wednesday 4th February 2004 – Paragon Hotel, London, SW6Keynote address: Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, Department for Education and Skills The Government has realised that problems inhibiting high standards in education are often greater than schools can address alone. As such there is a vital [...]

OFFICIAL HOME OFFICE PRESS RELEASE How local and national government adapt to the challenges of the 21st century to give greater power to communities is a debate which needs to be taken on the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, said today. Mr Blunkett said huge changes during the last century have transformed the relationship people have [...]

A new report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) is calling on local authorities to address the extent to which ‘Overview & Scrutiny’ is not yet embedded in the culture of their organisation.Realising the Potential of Scrutiny by NLGN’s Warren Hatter and Katy Johnson says that even where a council is positive about the [...]