Publications

This report forms part of the Local Government Association (LGA) evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides an overview of feedback from leaders and chief executives whose councils received a corporate peer challenge (CPC) in 2017/18.

The main green paper consultation launched on 31 July 2018 and closed in early October 2018. It posed a series of 30 questions across five main themes:

This report forms part of the LGA's evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides an overview of the longer term impact that CPCs have had on councils who received one in 2016/17.

This report focuses on the impact of the LGA’s National Graduate Development Programme (cohort 17).

This report outlines the twenty-first set of results in a series of regular Local Government Association (LGA) public polls on resident satisfaction with local councils, conducted every four months.

The case studies in this publication show the innovations that can be achieved by local areas collaborating within regions on health issues that can best be tackled at scale.

This report forms part of the Local Government Association (LGA) evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides a quantitative assessment of sector performance and how this has changed since 2009/10.

In this report we hope councils and their partners will find useful advice for best meeting the duty to refer responsibilities, along with examples of what genuine cooperation looks like from within England and Wales. 

We want all our children to have bright futures. Key to that is ensuring that they have the emotional resilience and tools to make good choices, overcome challenges and move confidently towards where they want to be in adulthood. The current system cannot deliver that – so how can we ensure that it does?

Our innovation and transformation offer outlines the programmes and improvement support we are offering to councils in 2018/19.