News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

• LLG Brief on The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

  Publish date: 17/05/2020

  An explanatory brief on the The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

• LLG Covid-19 Weekly Brief: Virtual Meeting Software- Zoom, Skype, Teams or GoToMeeting? Questions and Answers

  Publish date: 16/05/2020

  Questions and Answers from week 6 of the LLG COvid-19 Weekly Brief on Virtual Meeting Software.

• Weekly LLG Grapevine Podcast Launched

  Publish date: 14/05/2020

  A chatty light discussion featuring Deborah Evans (CEO), Dennis Hall (Bulletin Editor) and Helen McGrath (Head of Public Affairs) from LLG, which looks back over the last edition of the bulletin and highlights points of interest, pulling in government policy and national news to give you a quick round-up of topical developments. This week they discuss education, the planning inspectorate, scrutiny, welfare, ethics, the civil justice system and a butterfly house!

• Questions & Answers from the Behaviour & Etiquette to Remote Meetings

  Publish date: 04/05/2020

  Your questions answered from the LLG weekly Covid-19 brief on behaviour and etiquette, and scrutiny and governance whilst working remotely.

• LGO Publish Guidance on Good Administrative Practice During COVID-19

  Publish date: 01/05/2020

  The guidance is intended to be helpful in encouraging organisations to reflect on practice during the crisis, and to make clear the standards the LGO expect and the way in which they will consider complaints when they investigate downstream.

• LLG Produce New Guidance on School Admission Appeal Regulations

  Publish date: 30/04/2020

  LLG & ADSO have produced joint guidance on The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

• LLG & ADSO Produce Guidance on the Virtual Meeting Regulations - REVISED EDITION

  Publish date: 29/04/2020

  An explanatory note including highlights of issues to consider on The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 Revised on 7th April to expand on regulations 7-12 in reference to the GLA and amends reference to the 1960 Act

• Contracts, Deeds & Sealing - Webinar Questions Answered

  Publish date: 29/04/2020

  Questions and Answers from the LLG Weekly Webinar on Contracts, Deeds and Sealing now available.

• School Admission Regulations in Force Today

  Publish date: 24/04/2020

  The new regulations, which will be in force until 31 January 2021, will: disapply the requirement that appeals panels must be held in person and instead give flexibility for panel hearings to take place either in person, by telephone, video conference or through a paper-based appeal where all parties can make representations in writing relax the rules with regard to what happens if one of the 3 panel members withdraws (temporarily or permanently) to make it permissible for the panel to continue with and conclude the appeal as a panel of 2 amend the deadlines relating to appeals for the time that the new regulations are in force

• LLG Launch New Guidance on Remote Meetings Protocol and Procedure Rules

  Publish date: 17/04/2020

  LLG are very excited to bring you our Remote Meetings Protocol and Procedure Rules, produced in collaboration with ADSO. It covers annual meetings, notice requirements, access to information, remote access for both members and the public, procedures, and voting. It also provides you with draft standing orders and guidance for behaviour whilst in remote attendance. We recognise of course that the varying technological capabilities, procedures and constitutional arrangements cannot be comprehensively covered in the one document but we do hope you will find it of great value.