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SOURCE: PottEye As Stoke-on-Trent City Council strives to look for saving inevitably areas such as communications must come under scrutiny, and non...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is still defying the governments instructions on local councils having to release information about the salaries of sen...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has published guidance to local authorities on how to protect voluntary and community groups from disproportiona...

SOURCE: www.potteye.co.uk Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to move to having evening meetings following a decision by the ruling Labour Group at a cl...

An independent commission is to begin taking evidence from the public on whether or not the public feel there is a need for a British ‘Bill of Ri...

Part-Time Leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council Mohamed Pervez earned himself £833 a week or £43000 last year in allowances paid by the taxpayer ...

Source: www.potteye.co.uk The Centre for Public Scrutiny, on its website says: Introduction to Scrutiny Public scrutiny is an essential part of ens...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been listed as one of the offending local authorities that is still not publishing its data as “open dataR...

A City councillor has twarted educations officers attempts to stifle public scrutiny and debate regarding Childrens Centres 30% cuts in funding sch...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has refused requests that more meetings, including the main decision making “Cabinet” meetings be broadcast...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council dislayed further contempt and incompetence at the very first “public” Scrutiny meeting held on Wednesday 6...

The committee stage of the Localism Bill – line by line examination – continues for a fifth day in the House of Lords this afternoon (Tuesday 5...

Following on from the City Council receiving representations on the councillors declarations of interest inadequate records and procedures, Democra...

Democracy4Stoke, in continuing our priority actions have scrutinised the Councillors Declarations of Interests and found that many councillors are ...

Residents Treated Like Mushrooms Democracy4Stoke at its meeting last night, Thursday 16 june 2011, took the unprecidented step of altering its annu...

Source: www.potteye.co.uk It appears that Stoke-on-Trent City Council has given up altogether on openess and transparency and shed what little fig ...

Below is the calling notice and agenda for the monthly meeting which will be held at the Grocott Centre on Thursday 16th June 2011 commencing at 6....

media release – media release – media release From: democracy4stoke Dear Local Media Contact, Please see below copy of email sent to lo...

Source: http://networkedblogs.com/i1fvb The media constitute an important power in their own right and they are also intimately connected to other ...