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From: Jenny Subject: Government moving out of Whitehall
Surely it’d be better to move these jobs into other cities rather than the suburbs? People will still need to live in the south east and travel even further than they do now.
Moving the departments to other cities would enable this government spend to be shared around and give the staff a much better quality of life.
and help deny redress to the honest and wronged. Some local councils already deny access to the full register when a request for inspection is made citing ‘data protection’ reasons.
Denying a right granted by statute is unacceptable and if this proposal goes forth it will provide further ammunition for councils to be even more secretive over the information they hold.
With regards to John Dyson’s comments about parish councils being allowed access to the full register, this is not true. I am a parish councillor and our district council refuses to supply us with the full register for electoral purposes – we don’t know who our voters are either.
From: Roger Berry Subject: The ‘Family Support’ programme in Surrey
This is interesting, as much of the work appears to be what I used to call prevention; when I was a social worker, this was the task of our specialist family teams, who have been scrapped and replaced with social care staff who only deal with statutory work.
It’s amazing what goes around comes around!
From: Phil Bosworth Subject: Ban junk mail companies from accessing electoral roll – LGA
This is not about selling the open register to companies (not all of whom require it for marketing purposes) but denying a right of access granted by Parliament. Information from the electoral register is used to prevent fraud and pursue people who fail to pay their
debts to others. It will allow debtors to proliferate
From: Chris Payne, Leisure Services Manager, Pembrokeshire County Council Subject: Council spending on obesity up 21% – LGA
It is important that government realise that the swingeing local government cuts are dramatically aff ecting leisure service provision. Leisure services are at the forefront locally in the fi ght against obesity and other physical- inactivity related conditions.
opportunities, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
One key way government could assist leisure services to continue and expand these programmes would be to waive business rates. The business rates issue is forcing many authorities to transfer their leisure services to charitable trusts, which actually does not save the public purse anything. However it does cost local authorities several hundreds of thousands of pounds to set up, which is a cost to the public purse.
I see this as a painless option for government to help address these physical inactivity issues.
From: James Matthew Subject: LGA backs calls for a Constitutional Convention on devolution
Confl ating local government reform with the national issues which arise from devolution to Scotland and Wales is not helpful to either.
Local government reform should stand (or fall) on its own. It is neither credible nor desirable that either existing or new local government authorities in England should enjoy powers equal to the national government
of Scotland (except to those who deliberately wish to destroy England as an entity).
The West Lothian Question must fi rst be answered properly and that means an English Parliament (which should be the body to decide on devolution within England).
From: Name withheld Subject: Public sector leadership less ethnically diverse than private
I find it interesting that the Home Office and Ministry of Justice have such low numbers of BME staff in senior positons. They have spent probably millions of pounds on staff development programmes to ‘equip’ BME staff to move up in the organisations.
It is clear that these programmes are not effective and the same old blocks exist for staff from ethnic backgrounds to progress.
The Cabinet Office comment re: ‘wanting the best people’ implies that those from ethnic minority backgrounds are not the best!
From a middle manager from a BME background working in local government.
Many local authorities are running
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