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Welcome to the SIGOMA website. The site provides information on our current and previous work and also supporting documents. If you are a member please use your username and password to access SIGOMA papers and publications.
Not a member? Please read more about our current work and use the public documents section of the site to download and view SIGOMAs lobbying work.
Whats New
| Transforming Places, Changing Lives: A Framework for Regeneration |
A new briefing is available in the circulars and briefings sections.
The briefing covers the proposals made by Government in the recently released consultation on the regeneration framework.
The closing date for the consultation is 31st October 2008. |
| SIGOMA Executive Committee August 21st 2008 |
| The venue for this meeting will be the Town Hall, Barnsley |
| Government outlines new ways to lift children out of poverty and increase social mobility |
| A package of new initiatives to help families and end child poverty as part of a renewed drive to increase social mobility will be announced by Children's Secretary Ed Balls, Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper today. |
| Health Inequalities: Progress and next steps |
This document outlines the Government’s approach to hit the 2010 health inequalities Public Service Agreement targets, assessing what has and has not worked, and setting the direction of travel beyond 2010.
The partial equality impact assessment sets out some of the current health inequalities and potential interventions to reduce and eliminate these inequalities.
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| SIGOMA Profile Update - Local Authority Information |
| This document provides individual local authority information to support the main document.
This document can be accessed via in the policy circulars (circulars and briefings section) of the website. |
More events and publications
SIGOMA
SIGOMA is a special interest group of
45
urban authorities in the northern, midland and south-coast regions of England. We are the collective voice across these regions and embody the opportunities and potential of the communities who live there. The SIGOMA group of local authorities has a joint population of around 13 million people – making it one of the largest special interest groups within the Local Government Association and accountable for about 25% of local government spending in England.
The aims of SIGOMA are to:
- represent the interests of our members within the Local Government Association
- channel the views of our members to Government, the LGA, Government Departments and any other appropriate body.
- provide a forum for discussion at the highest political level, of matters of common concern to member authorities.
SIGOMA Authorities need resources and freedoms to improve the opportunities of the local communities they represent. Over the last eight years, we have worked hard to make sure that SIGOMA provides an authoritative and influential voice on local government finance and funding issues, seeking to ensure that some of the most deprived communities in the country receive the investment they need.
SIGOMA also recognises the breadth of issues facing our urban areas and will continue to work with local partners, like primary care trusts and Government departments to improve the health and well being of communities in urban areas.
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