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Government urged to make remote meetings permanent
The National Association of Local Councils has again urged the government to make remote meetings a permanent option for local councils.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is seeking views from local government and other bodies on the issue.
NALC entered into extensive dialogue across local government and with rural stakeholders. The outcome was the unanimous agreement with NALC that local councils should be permanently allowed the option of holding remote meetings at a time of their choosing.
Suggesting that a hybrid approach to local council meetings may be inevitable in the future, the NALC says that given the recent delay in lifting some lockdown restrictions and uncertainty over the safety of holding local council meetings physically, the government should give local councils the legal option of holding remote meetings if they want to – in the interests of health, safety and society.
Hertfordshire County Council, the Association of Democratic Service Officers (ADSO), and Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) bought an unsuccessful high court case on remote meetings in April 2021.
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