Welcome to the Local Government Channel website - the leading broadcaster for local government.
The Local Government Channel is for anyone with an interest in local government including chief executives, councillors, senior managers and the members of the communities they serve.
First Challenge – Votes and Voices
Local Government Challenge
The very first in the series of the Local Government Challenge takes the ten hopefuls to Coventry where some areas of the city have low levels of voter turn out. The contestants must battle it out and find some winning ideas to tackle the issue if they are to impress a panel of high ranking leaders that included: LGA Chief Executive John Ransford, Martin Reeves, Chief Executive of Coventry City Council and Julie Towers, Chief Executive of Tribal.
This challenge was sponsored by Tribal:
Carers
Whats New
Live Twitter Feed
- Congratulations! RT @LewishamCouncil: Results just in. New Young Mayor of Lewisham is Kieran Lang. Dep Young Mayor is Chezney Speed-Skyers.
- Great model for collaboration at #solacesummit in Edinburgh this week. Read the Communique at http://t.co/pK0iBY13
- Watch how the debate unfolded at this week's Solace Summit 2011 on SolaceTV by WebsEdge_Gov http://t.co/MqSc1Vgz
- I uploaded a YouTube video -- John Ransford: the problem with directly elected mayors http://youtu.be/Od_eZd0amRM?a
