Kirklees Council and West Yorkshire Archive Service are delighted to announce that as part of the Batley 150 celebrations we’re working together to restore the remarkable document that created the Borough of Batley exactly 150 years ago.
Our Working Group discussed Civic Pathways for Young Citizens, including our work with NCS, apprenticeships and work placements, projects with schools, voter registration activities, Kirklees Youth Council and work with the University of Huddersfield.
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 28th November 2018. We’ve included a video summary, documents, information about how you can get involved, the full webcast, tweets and photos. Summary of the meeting At this meeting we discussed work to improve our content about council decision-making and work to involve our young citizens in local democracy. We also talked about the Innovation in Democracy programme, which is an opportunity for 8 to 10 councils…
During Local Democracy Week 2018, we wrote an open letter to Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government and Lord Porter of Spalding, Chair of the Local Government Association about our recommendations for Government and the LGA about support for councillors. Here is the response we received from Rishi Sunak MP.
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 24th October 2018.
We’ve invited some of our officers and councillors to go face to face in a new series of videos.
We’ve started some practical work in Kirklees to put councillors at the heart of our organisation.
We’ve written an open letter to Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government and Lord Porter of Spalding, Chair of the Local Government Association about our recommendations for Government and the LGA about support for councillors.
We’ve written an open letter to Chloe Smith MP, Minister for the Constitution, about our recommendations for Government about voting and elections.
We’re holding a Leaders Question Time event on 23rd October 2018, and everyone is welcome to send in their questions.