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Local government funding: Moving the conversation on

By 2020, local authorities will have faced a reduction to core funding from the Government of nearly £16 billion over the preceding decade.

LGA conference and exhibition handbook: Birmingham | 3-5 July 2018 COVER

LGA conference and exhibition handbook: Birmingham | 3-5 July 2018

This week is an opportunity to celebrate the work of councils up and down the county.

A sustainable adult social care and support system for the long term COVER

A sustainable adult social care and support system for the long term: moving the conversation on

Ahead of the green paper on the future of adult social care, we are publishing a series of think pieces where sector experts address issues at the heart of the debate to help define what a system fit for future generations might look like.

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Enterprising councils: supporting councils’ income generation activity COVER

Enterprising councils: supporting councils’ income generation activity

During these tough times, interest in commercial activity – both improving internally delivered services and establishing new delivery models – continues to grow.

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Housing, planning and homelessness: Moving the conversation on

This paper is the very start of our campaign ahead of the Spending Review. We have published a series of papers, commissioned by LGA boards, which start the new thinking around building the case for long term, sustained investment in local government as well as laying out the positive outcomes this would deliver for the country.

Family Front Door: Smart information-sharing portal COVER

Family Front Door: Smart information-sharing portal

Working with local partners, Worcestershire County Council has developed a smart, mobile-responsive, information-sharing ‘professionals portal’ that builds an accurate multiagency picture of children and their families and supports the county’s Family Front Door initiative, which provides a single referral pathway for accessing council and partner support services.

A year in the LGA 2017/18 COVER

A year in the LGA 2017/18

Over the last year, as the legislative agenda has been focused on delivering Britain’s exit from the EU for the UK, we have had to take a different approach to our campaigning on behalf of our councils.

Healthy weight, healthy futures: local government action to tackle childhood obesity COVER

Healthy weight, healthy futures: local government action to tackle childhood obesity

Childhood obesity is one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century. At the start of primary school one in 10 children are obese and by the end, that has increased to one in five.

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LGA in Parliament 2017/18

The LGA works with a network of parliamentary supporters, including our Vice-Presidents (those with a strong interest in the work of local government who champion its causes in Parliament), to promote positive change and public service reform.

lga right to buy sustainability analysis - apr18

Sustainability of Right to Buy

While Right to Buy has helped thousands of families into home-ownership, the rules governing the scheme and the Housing Revenue Account have not enabled councils to replace those homes which are desperately needed in so many parts of the country.

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Make It Local

To deliver priorities for the public the Government needs to #MakeItLocal

Make It Local

By the start of 2025, we will have had a general election. This is a moment of opportunity.

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