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 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.
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 29th August 2018.
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 18th July 2018.
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Tuesday 26th June 2018.
If you’d like to recommend someone to be on a future Kirklees Question Time panel, we are taking your suggestions now.
ADSO (the Association of Democratic Services Officers) have created a special award to acknowledge the Kirklees Democracy Commission’s “outstanding work in promoting local democracy.”