Chris Bally, CEO of East Suffolk Council and Caroline Topping, Leader of East Suffolk Council joined us following the Government announcement on Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) They highlighted the following:
Three unitary model proposed by the District Councils and Ipswich Borough Council has been announced as the model to procced with.
Headlines for this chosen model are detailed in the Government letter to the Suffolk Leaders.
Next steps for Government is the structural change order
An implementation board consisting of CEO's of all local authorities will be set up and will include representatives from areas such as the voluntary sector, education, NHS and SALC. Two representatives from each will feed into the general process.
The creation of a new Ipswich Town Council as detailed in business plans submitted. SALC has placed a bid to support this process.
SALC issued a mailing to all councils following the LGR announcement and updated the dedicated LGR webpage.
An update was shared following the East Suffolk Council parish forum held in February which focused on Planning. The slides are available to view on the East Suffolk Council website. Headlines for this forum shared by Kim Puttock and Lesley Beevor that attended the forum.
NSIPs and new member of the team, Elma Glasgow, at SALC - link to news item.
New SALC HR Support Service in advance of email to councils at the end of March
Internal audit - highlighting new Assertion 10 which councils should already be complying to. Assertion 10 is bringing digital and compliance data into focus. What is new is that there must be a least as a minimum one generic email domain such as .gov.uk or .org.uk and that councils must adopt an IT policy.
A future super-forum will be set for June now that the decision on LGR has been announced. Date will be published in due course.
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