Youth Strategy Groups (YSGs) across Essex are to be abolished, along with their ring-fenced funding of £200,000. This plan slipped out from Conservative-run Essex County Council in a briefing in the last few days.
Chelmsford City Council’s new Cabinet team has been appointed, with some revised roles created by the returning Liberal Democrat administration. The selections were announced at Annual Council, a largely ceremonial meeting of all elected council members.
The leader of Chelmsford City Council says the local Tory MP "should be worried" about her position after the Liberal Democrats increased their control across the area.
A new record has been set at Chelmsford City Council following the election of their youngest-ever councillor. Kieron Anthony Franks, 22, was elected to serve as a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Great Baddow East ward following the local elections.