A day in the life of local government – share your pictures

Presiding officers and polling clerks collecting the ballot boxes for the May 2015 general election: just one of the many facets of local government. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Local government may be shrinking as a result of savage cuts, with job losses, reduced services and social care funding in existential crisis, but everyday, council staff are working to provide a wide array of local services, and that is something the annual #OurDay tweetathon sets out to celebrate.

From just after midnight on Tuesday 15 November, council employees and councillors in England and Wales will take to Twitter armed with the hashtag #OurDay to showcase the work they and their colleagues do. Last year’s event resulted in 18,000 tweets.

This year’s social media event takes place ahead of the autumn statement on 23 November and provides an ideal opportunity, according to the Local Government Association, which organises the day, to highlight the work of councilsand the key issues they face. This year’s event takes place at a time when the chancellor Phillip Hammond will be severely limited in his options for public finance. A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the £10.4bn surplus pencilled in for 2019–20 by George Osborne in his last budget as chancellor in March is now on course to be a £14.9bn deficit.

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So this year’s social media event is even more important in order to provide an insight into the huge variety of jobs councils do.

If you work in local public services, or use and value your local public services, show us what you do and why these services matter. To support the #OurDay tweetathon, we want you to share your pictures and stories that represent a day in your life. Afterwards we will be putting together a gallery of your images on the Guardian Public Leaders Network.

You can share your photographs or videos by clicking on the blue “contribute” button on this article, or you can download the free GuardianWitness app if you have a smartphone. Please use the description field to tell us more about the photo or video.

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