CLOA is creating a peer-to-peer network to enable members to explore ideas, challenges and opportunities around Local Government Reorganisation and Devolution.

These sessions will be swift and supportive; a safe place to discuss and shape our role. If LGR and Devolution are a once in lifetime opportunity for local government change, how do we ensure that this is an opportunity for cultural services to flourish?

Jayne Knight, CLOA Executive Committee member, will facilitate this network. The first session will look at the Norfolk & Suffolk Culture Board – and will identify other areas of good practice for future sessions from amongst the peer group.

The Norfolk & Suffolk Culture Board is working hard to ensure that the new Mayoral Authority and local government Unitaries’ in the region can develop, support and invest in the cultural sector and cultural services. The Board has secured investment from ACE to develop an informed, focussed, planned approach.

As Jayne is one of the co-ordinators for the Norfolk & Suffolk Culture Board, she has offered to kick-start the sharing with her own case study.

The network will be peer to peer, open and collaborative, it will set its own meetings and members of the network will be encouraged to offer case studies and lead the discussions.

You can register to attend the first session here.

Please note that this session will not be recorded.