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Solace regularly draws on our members’ experience and expertise to respond to consultations run by government departments, Parliamentary Select Committees and third sector organisations on policy proposals and issues impacting on local government. Scroll down and click on the links to see all of our publicly available consultation submissions.
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Solace response to DHSC’s Transforming the Public Health Consultation
To have a strong public health system, which protects the public and improves people’s life chances, the whole system must be underpinned by a truly sustainable multi-year financial settlement for local government which allows councils to lead on population health and the NHS on treating illness.
Solace Response to the HCLG Committee Finance Inquiry
This submission is based on the views of Solace’s Policy Board, which consists of 26 serving local authority chief executives and senior managers.
Spending Review 2020: Solace submission
This Spending Review is crucial for the short and long-term future of this country as it responds to, and recovers from, the Coronavirus crisis, and prepares for its future outside the European Union. Ensuring local government is sustainably funded will be vital if the country is to successfully overcome these many challenges.
Solace Budget 2020 Submission
Solace has urged the Government to use the upcoming Budget and Spending Review to provide councils with a truly sustainable multi-year settlement and limit the amount of new funding it distributes through one-off pots. Click through to read the full submission.
Restricting Exit Payments in the Public Sector
Solace Consultation Response: Restricting Exit Payments in the Public Sector July 2019
Solace Wales – Restricting exit payments in the public sector: consultation on implementation of regulations
Solace (Wales) is opposed to these regulations and supports the call for Government to accept that these regulations should not be progressed further due to the unfair and negative impact this will have on the local government workforce and the sector’s ability to continue to effectively manage change down-sizing and restructuring within the sector.
Solace response to the Local Government Financial Settlement 17/18 Consultation
Written evidence submitted by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (Solace) in response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee’s Inquiry on the Productivity Plan
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Productive Economy, Productive State
Submission on the 2015 Spending Review.
Productive Economy, Productive State: A Letter from Solace
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Solace response to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s consultation on the Government’s Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill
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Solace response to the consultation on a Public Sector Exit Payment Cap
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Solace joint response with ADCS and the LGA to the consultation on Joint Targeted Area Inspections
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Solace Elections and Democratic Renewal Network Board response to the ‘Representation of the People England & Wales Amendment No. 3 Regulations 2015’
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Solace response to the consultation on ‘Proposed Local Authorities Functions and Responsibilities England Regulations 2015’
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Solace response to the LGA ‘Taking Stock’ consultation on the future of sector-led improvement
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Solace response to the consultation on Proposed Local Authorities Functions and Responsibilities England Regulations
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