The Vale of Glamorgan Council has said it's exploring better ways to platform its meetings following a backlash from councillors. Opposition councillors at the local authority have criticised an absence of face to face meetings since Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted in Wales over a year ago.
The Vale Council is also one of a number of local authorities in the country which does not carry out its meetings using a hybrid platform. Leader of the Plaid Cymru group at the Vale of Glamorgan Council, Cllr Ian Johnson, said: "It is poor that the Vale of Glamorgan Council is still holding remote-only meetings, a year after legislation came into force to allow hybrid meetings.
“The Council still does not allow contributions in Welsh because there is no translation facility provided. The Multi-Location Meeting policy adopted in April, 2022, hasn’t been revised after a year. I assume because we have no idea whether or not it works because, apart from a handful of occasions last summer, there has been no live meetings to test this."
