RunnymedeTrust: RT Leading Routes: 🔊 Spaces to meaningfully celebrate Black scholarship need to be nourished!

#BlackinAcademia showcases interdiciplinary Black talent in and beyond the academy.

⭐ On 5th June from 6pm, all are welcome to to our an… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: RT George Padmore Institute: Listen to our trustee Linton Kwesi Johnson perform his poem about the New Cross fire. Visit our website to find out about our archive collection on the work carried out by the New Cross Massacre Action Committee to suppor… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: RT Money and Mental Health: Today at 11am! 🕚

We’re delighted to have fantastic speakers from Runnymede Trust, Race Equality Foundation, CitizensAdvice and our own Research Community join us for this panel on how our ethnicity can interact with our financial an… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: RT The Sociological Review Foundation: Does social media offer promise or peril for anti-racist solidarity? @shabnabegum76 Runnymede Trust describes finding hope in hearing about the lives and activism of young Londoners today >>> #UncommonSense … twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: RT Methuen Drama: Bloomsbury is a proud partner in the #LitInColour campaign alongside Penguin Books and Runnymede Trust.

At the launch of our research report at the National Theatre, we asked our Advisory Board and partners why the pro… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

LGANews: 📻 🔈LGA Senior Vice Chair Shaun Davies - Standing Up for Telford joined BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss our response to Gov plans to improve school attendance

Children not in school are currently invisible to councils who lack powers to ensure that they do not slip through… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: 💬“Retrofitting more homes is practical, sustainable and economically responsible way to raise housing standards and cut bills'

LGA's Cllr Linda Taylor tells The Independent a locally led approach would mean councils can target homes that need … twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: Supporting retrofitting in cities, towns and villages cannot be managed from Whitehall, councils say

National schemes are struggling and slow progress insulating homes puts fuel poverty targets at risk, costing billions and contributing to clim… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: 💬'LGA will continue to work with Gov to ensure councils have right powers, skills, capacity and resources to improve standards in private rented sector'

🗣️Cllr Darren Rodwell on the new Renters Reform Bill in 🗞️The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/no-fau… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: The removal of ‘no fault’ evictions in the Renters Reform Bill is a significant step towards tackling our national homelessness crisis and has been long-called for by the LGA and councils

Read our statement local.gov.uk/about/news/ren… #ukhousing twitter.com/LGANews/status…

RunnymedeTrust: Responsible governance requires backing up 'unfashionable' statements with credible facts, which Suella Braverman MP would be unable to do for these extremely harmful comments.

This speech does nothing more than feed anxieties, and invite … twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: RT INQUEST: Last month, a man died after being Tasered by police and falling off a fifth-floor balcony in Peckham.

Now, the IOPC has announced that two Met police officers are under criminal investigation for gross negligence mansla… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…

RunnymedeTrust: 'Of those turned away, 53% were identified by observers as appearing to be 'non-white'.'

Extremely concerning initial local election analysis, showing how Voter ID requirements prevented minority ethnic people from voting.
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LGANews: ICYMI, 🗣️ Cllr Darren Rodwell on 📻 Times Radio about housing and planning 🏘️.

Councils are already playing their part as:

🏘️ 2.6 million homes are already allocated in local plans

🏘️ More than a million homes still waiting to be built under exi… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: Plans to increase planning fees by 35 per cent will not be enough to prevent a significant national shortfall or solve capacity issues in the sector.

The LGA is calling for councils to have the flexibility to set fees at a local level

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LGANews: RT @MarkLloydLGA: Following last week's #LocalElections2023 , I can now confirm the new political balance at Local Government Association (LGA) with LGA Labour as the largest group.
 
Many thanks to colleagues and our independent consultants for their hard work in the c… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: RT Local Government Association (LGA): Following the #LocalElections2023 held on 4 May, LGA Labour is now the largest group at the cross-party Local Government Association (LGA).

The new political balance is:
38.65% Labour
33.75% Conservative
14.96% Liberal Democrat
12.64% Independent/other

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LGANews: RT @MarkLloydLGA: As the largest group in Local Government Association (LGA), LGA Labour has completed its election process & confirmed that Shaun Davies - Standing Up for Telford is their nominee to become the LGA’s next cross-party Chair.

Congratulations to Cllr Davies, who will be elect… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

LGANews: RT @MarkLloydLGA: Following last week's #LocalElections2023 , I can now confirm the new political balance at Local Government Association (LGA) with LGA Labour as the largest group.
 
Many thanks to colleagues and our independent consultants for their hard work in the c… twitter.com/LGANews/status…

RunnymedeTrust: RT Nadine White.: 'Revealed: How Britain’s housing crisis hits Black & Asian tenants hardest'

- More than 80% of Black & Asian renters living in disrepair
- Mould choking sleeping children
- Ceilings collapsing around tenants
- Complai… twitter.com/RunnymedeTrust…