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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
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AWEMA – a failure of governance
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The show must go on
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The Welsh re-Development Agency
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An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Posts Tagged ‘local government’
Abolish this kangaroo court
The Public Service Ombudsman for Wales is embroiled in a vast array of increasingly trivial and unwarranted investigations against councillors. In England, the government has proposed to abolish its equivalent body – will the WAG follow suit?
The Anglesey Angle
A FEW months ago I wrote a column which put Anglesey Council centre stage and reflected on the problems there. Anyone who has followed any of the shenanigans in Wales’s most dysfunctional Council will surely have breathed a huge sigh of relief when a new alliance was formed to run the Council last month. The [...]
Whatever happened to the idea of making every school a great school?
School reorganisation in Cardiff isn’t just about Welsh medium provision in Cardiff West: there’s a much bigger picture here and one in which the Council must listen and the Assembly Government respect
“The need to work together has become the purpose – not just a process”
On Thursday the new Welsh Local Government Minister addressed the Welsh Local Government Association conference in Llandudno – and he didn’t pull a punch. Here’s a transcript of perhaps the most significant speech in Welsh politics in the last week
A perfect storm that Wales cannot weather
With the biggest public service cuts in a generation threatened by both main parties, the danger to Wales is immense. Why haven’t those at the heart of the impending disaster been brought to book?
Funding local government: common problems, radical solutions
With predictions that up to a third of local government jobs may go, now is not the time to micro-manage local government or to forget the importance of local accountability and decision making
We can’t afford to cut the public sector
During a period of tight financial settlements, public services often become a scapegoat or an easy target for cuts and so-called efficiency savings. But cutting public services now could do the economy more damage and lead to another recession
An active state must play pushy parent to children in care
As a parent your responsibility for your children doesn’t end when they get to eighteen – so why do we not apply the same standards to children in care?
Leave the politics to us, love
Continuing our International Women’s Day coverage, why doesn’t politics practice what it preaches, and could there be a better time than now to address the gender imbalance on our local authorities?
Trust the people: time to devolve from the Assembly
Instead of national politicians treating local government as scapegoats and indulging in blame games, it’s time for a new era of proper partnership which trusts local democracy to deliver
Anglesey: An island unto itself
The local government minister yesterday issued one of the most strongly-worded calls for reform ever issued by the Welsh Government, aimed at the continually troublesome Anglesey Council. Is there anything in its past to suggest it will take heed?
Democracy 1, local democracy 0
MPs insist the General Election counts must go ahead on the night. So much for local accountability, eh?
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