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Mayors call for more direct decision making power (opens the original)
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Mayor wants role in schooling for 11 years olds (opens the original)
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A regional mayor has said mayors should have a role in 11-plus education to tailor the curriculum to the local economy. Speaking at a Centre for Cities event at the Labour party conference, Oliver Coppard (Lab), mayor of the South Yorkshire CA, said he wanted to be able to “match our economy with our skills base”. He said: “I personally think mayors should be involved not just in skills but in education, and I think we should be looking at an 11- plus kind of age range because I think if we’re b
Workforce ‘too limited’ for devo expansion (opens the original)
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The workforce needed to deliver the planned expansion of devolution across England is not “prepped and ready to go,” a strategic authority chief executive has warned. It comes as one regional mayor said his authority would need to double its current capacity to deliver its current responsibilities properly, and others warned they would have to grow quickly as the government expands their remits. Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference, Mark Rogers, interim chief executive of
McMahon: No plan to give council powers to mayors (opens the original)
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The local government minister has said the government does not have a programme to shift powers from councils to regional government. Jim McMahon was responding to concerns from some in local government that the government’s devolution plans risk centralising power at a regional level with mayors, at the expense of councils. Speaking to LGC at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, he said: “Where devolution works well, councils collaborate, they come together, they share experience and capac
Hopeful thinking at Labour conference (opens the original)
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Despite the conference slogan, not all of the Labour family seemed particularly hopeful at its first conference under Andy Burnham, writes acting editor Martin George. Today’s news from the Labour party conference: Burnham promises to scrap right to buy for new homes Mayors promised new powers over water companies Adass: ‘Care reform cannot wait until next election’ Rayner: Councils to get new homelessness powers Mason: Devo ‘won’t mean anything’ if it stops at mayors “Hope Again” – two words pl
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