Democracy & Governance

Stories about Democracy & Governance

Devon & Cornwall Police must make “urgent improvements”

The police inspectorate says Devon and Cornwall Police must make “urgent improvements” after the force was found to be inadequate in three of nine areas including responding to emergency and non-emergency calls and managing registered sexual and violent offenders.

Exeter City Futures publishes board agenda two months after meeting held

Exeter City Futures published the agenda for its 1 December board meeting on 30 January, two months after the meeting was held.

Ofsted finds county council children’s services not making sufficient progress

Devon County Council is not making sufficient progress with its children’s services since they were judged inadequate in January 2020 according to the latest Ofsted monitoring report.

City council again breaches local government transparency legislation

Exeter City Council has again breached local government transparency legislation by failing to give required notice of its intention to hold an Executive committee meeting in private.

City council collects council tax payments nine days early

Exeter City Council has collected thousands of council tax payments that were due on 25 January nine days early.

City council planning meeting cancelled after communications failure

Exeter City Council has cancelled a meeting of its planning committee after failing to inform objectors that the meeting was taking place.

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