Ministers reject calls for council meetings to be held online Councils must continue holding meetings in person, the Government has said, as it rejected calls to introduce laws despite the spread of the Omicron variant. Lord Greenhalgh, a minister of state at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Read more…
Sussex Police are using ‘big data’ to turn millions of records of phone calls, crimes, investigations and court trials into a tool to drive productivity and make people safer. It will enable officers to predict trends, identify serial offenders, study crime hotspots and devote more time to victims. In an Read more…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched a series of webinars to help support councillors’ personal safety while carrying out everyday activities. Councillors represent their communities as part of an open and transparent local democratic system. This involves regularly meeting residents, often one-to-one and out in the community. This event, Read more…
Dear Members, As the end of 2021 draws closer, we want to thank you for keeping your membership with ESALC as we navigated our transition in the first few months of the year from SSALC to ESALC. We now feel very settled with our new and independent East Sussex status Read more…
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ESALC Training ProgrammeWe are really pleased with how our 2021 training programme is shaping up. It has been great to see so many attendees at many of our online sessions. We are now running training sessions in the following areas: New/Refresher Councillors, Chairman, Planning, Finance, Social Media and New Clerks. Read more…