A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers
A blog about Wirral Council's public meetings, Wirral Council's councillors, Bidston & St. James ward and other public bodies on Merseyside
Councillors on Liverpool City Council expected to vote themselves a 2% increase in allowances next Wednesday evening
Next Wednesday evening (22nd May 2019) councillors on Liverpool City Council are expected to agree to a 2% increase in the allowances paid to councillors and its Elected Mayor.
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What’s in the candidate’s consent to nomination for the Labour candidates for the election of a councillor to Liverpool City Council in 2019 for Allerton and Hunts Cross, Belle Vale and Old Swan wards?
Below are three completed candidate’s consent to nomination for the Liverpool City Council elections in 2019.
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OFSTED and CQC criticise Liverpool City Council and Liverpool CCG for “significant weaknesses” in special education needs and disability provision for children and young adults in Liverpool
A joint inspection of Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group by OFSTED and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out in January 2019 identified “significant weaknesses”.
Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectorate determined a “Written Statement of Action” was required. Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group have been jointly required to submit this statement.
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What did a Government Internal Audit Agency draft report reveal about Wirral Council procurement processes and how a contractor spent public money?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
Below is a GIAA (Government Internal Audit Agency) draft report. It involves a civil servant recommending clawback of a large amount of grant from Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. It also comments on other council’s procurement processes and how the money was spent with a particular supplier. This is just the text extracted from the documents below.
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After Liverpool City Council loses battle to develop Calderstones Park in the High Court, will Wirral Council drop the unpopular Hoylake Golf Resort project?
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Above is a picture of and video of Mayor Joe Anderson speaking in 2015 about Liverpool City Council ’s controversial plans for housing in Liverpool in a much loved park. After two related planning permissions for the project were approved by Liverpool City Council they were then quashed with reasons given in a 27 page judgement by a High Court Judge in a judgement handed down last Friday. Liverpool Open and Green Spaces Community Interest Company brought the successful legal challenge.
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