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Local government plays an important role in all our lives: it provides vital care and social services, influences economic development in our neighbourhoods and is a vital part of the UK’s democratic system.

Local councils spend around £95billion a year, and women make up over 75 per cent of the local government workforce, but even in 2016 only 33 per cent of local councillors, 19 per cent of elected mayors and 13 per cent of council leaders were women.