Share your work and initiatives with me!

The deadline for sponsorship applications for the IIMC Brussels symposium is close of play Tuesday 28th February so please e mail me urgently if you wish to be considered (john.austin@adso.co.uk).

I am attending the SOLAR Conference in Aberdeen later in March on behalf of ADSO. They have asked me to run a workshop on ‘Democratic Services – The English Experience’. I propose to focus on the wider governance role you fulfil but also on how DSOs have responded to the challenges brought about by budget cuts and restructurings. So I would like to hear from you please if you have any good practice examples of how your team has met these challenges and (for example) brought in extra work/income to supplement your budget. I will put a post on the members forum as well.

Finally, ADSO will be taking part in the fourth scrutiny workshop with the Centre for Public Scrutiny and INLOGOV on 24th March titled “Scrutiny in challengin times”. I will be running a session on ADSO’s perspective of the challenges/opportunities facing scrutiny.  If you have any views or experiences of how scrutiny could be improved, then please let me know by 15th March. Again, I will post on the member forum.

If you wish to attend this seminar, please visit the INLOGOV website or get in touch with me.

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