Local Government Innovation Taskforce Articles

Every local community is unique. Each and every one has a complex set of needs which can best be understood by people who work, live and maybe even have grown up in the place they represent, as I have in Stevenage. As councillors, this is what makes us unique. And...

The general election is now less than eight months away and as the political battlelines are being drawn Labour is defining a new message: gaining power to give it away. The period since the last general election has been interesting. With unprecedented cuts targeted...

As a Labour local authority we have long known that we are best placed to deliver the kinds of social justice aims our party stands for. In May we stood on a platform of being fair to all and ambitious for everyone, and we are working every day to help improve the...

This week’s report by the Local Government Innovation Taskforce, People-Powered Public Services, marks another important stage in Labour’s policy review. The report sets out in detail how a future Labour administration should go about the task of decentralising...