2020 Conference Update 

Our 2020 DCN Conference was our most successful yet. With over 250 registered delegates and a variety of speakers and innovative presentations, we witnessed real engagement of council leaders from all over England, tackling districts’ biggest future challenges. Please see below to read our Chairman’s speech, and see some of the presentations that took place over the two days.

Chairman’s speech – opening speech by Cllr John Fuller OBE

DCN2020 Conference Chairman’s speech

Presentations:

Sir John Curtice: Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde 

The Voters’ Perspective: Public Concerns and Political Trends 

David Phillips: Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies 

The 2020 Spending Review and the outlook for local government funding: what about district councils?

Cllr Doina Cornell: Leader, Stroud District Council

Changing Waste Collections to Minimise Waste to Landfill

Cllr Kevin Maguire: Norwich City Council, Portfolio Holder for Safe and Sustainable City Environment

Tackling Climate Change: Norwich’s Story 

Jean Templeton: Chief Executive, St Basils and Chair, WMCA Homelessness Taskforce

Michael Veryard, Chiltern and South Bucks District Council and DCN Housing Adviser

Workshop Session: Homelessness and rough sleeping: ending it by preventing it

John Parmiter, Director, Future High Streets

Daisy Daventry, Town Centre and High Streets Policy Team Lead, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)

Workshop Session: Your High Streets: retail is detail