I manage the Digital Services Team for a council in the South of England, I’m also Vice-Chair of the LocalGov Digital Steering Group, a network of digital practitioners working in councils across the country. It’s the nature of the mixture of local and national administration that sometime geographical boundaries don’t match up. Take Berkshire for example . There are eight parliamentary constituencies and six unitary authorities, but only two of the former are administered by a single one of the latter. Confused? Voters probably are too. The local authority that voters pay their council tax to might not be the one that administers polling for their parliamentary seat. For example, if you live in the parliamentary constituency of Windsor, you’ll have to visit the websites of either Bracknell Forest Council , Slough Borough Council or the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to find the location of your polling station. This is where the work Democracy Club is doing c...
Local Government, Digital.