- Conference
- 2016 Local Government Service Group Conference
- Date
- 25 February 2016
- Decision
- Carried
This Conference notes that motions on cuts to facility time have been debated and passed at Local Government Conference in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
This Conference notes that the motion passed in 2013 called for the development of ‘…practical and immediate support measures for branches facing cuts to facility time’.
This Conference notes that the motion passed in 2014 called ‘…on the Service Group Executive to urgently clarify what work has been undertaken, is being considered, or is planned to provide practical and immediate support measures to Branches whose facility time has been or is in the process of being cut’.
This Conference further notes that the motion passed in 2015 was amended to ‘…bring forward proposals which address the need for practical and immediate support measures to branches by remedying the shortcomings of current resource streams’.
This Conference regrets the fact that 2016 will be the third consecutive conference at which the issue of practical and immediate support measures for branches facing cuts to facility time has not been resolved.
This Conference further believes that a lack of response to motions and amendments democratically carried at Local Government Conference is not indicative of a healthy and vibrant culture of responsiveness to lay activist concerns.
This Conference therefore calls on the Local Government Service Group Executive to urge the NEC to speed up the implementation of the action called for in previous motions carried at local government conference, most recently in 2015.