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LGcomms has appointed Essex County Council’s Andy Allsopp as its Chair for 2022 following its Annual General Meeting. Andy Allsopp succeeds Alix Macfarlane who served a two-year term as LGcomms …

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What it means for local government comms and other public sector organisations The Online Safety Bill – a world-first piece of legislation from the UK government – aims to make …

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Meeting online for the next element of academic study with Professor Paul Willis and the 2022 Future Leaders cohort felt a bit like logging on to one of those digital …

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The value of accessibility for public sector websites Recent research indicates that less than 1% of website home pages are likely to meet standard accessibility requirements. If you’re not addressing …

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The morning after the day before, on the journey back across the Pennines, I had a slight but irritating pain in my neck. The sleep in an unfamiliar hotel bed …

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We’ve all had one of those days – feeling uninspired, struggling to find something interesting to say about the same old thing and too busy to bring that dry and …

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LGcomms are delighted to announce that we’ll be working in association with AdSmart from Sky across the year ahead. The world of communications within local government is fast moving and …

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Two years ago today, 10th March 2020, I drove home from County Hall in Chelmsford on a Friday evening…and didn’t go back into the office again for over a year. …

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My first day on the programme was truly eye-opening. Not only did I find a group of like-minded people who could understand exactly what I was talking about, they also …

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I know this is something we all know we can do but how many of us practice this? How many times do you say “no” or “we don’t have the …

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