Productivity Programme: Better for less

The Local Productivity Programme is the LGA's response to the current budgetary challenges. It supports councils in generating further improvements in productivity to get the very best value for money and outcomes for local communities.

The Open Public Services White Paper brings greater clarity to the Government's aspirations to make services more customer-centric. It tasks councils with holding together potentially more fragmented services and with a greater number of providers. Efficiency alone will not deliver these savings and more radical solutions need to be explored.

The Open Public Services White Paper – on the Cabinet Office website

The Local Productivity Programme 'Better for less' is our response to these challenges.

"The Government has recognised time and again that councils lead the whole of the public sector in terms of delivering improvements, innovation and efficiencies. We need to capitalise on this strong track record by continuing to share and adopt the best practice, seek out new and innovative ways of delivering local services and lobby the Government to remove the barriers that limit our success."

Sir Merrick Cockell, LGA Chairman.

Our productivity programme is helping councils improve productivity and deliver better for less by:

supporting them to improve productivity
bring them together to share innovation and learn from each other
engaging central government and partner organisations in a debate about longer-term, more radical options, to improve productivity

Our offer for councils focuses on providing practical support and solutions to councils improve that will improve their productivity and help them deliver better for less. Read more about our offer.

LGA Productivity Programme offer to councils (PDF, 8 pages, 366 KB)