Publications

Filter by topics
Filter by support type
Your search returned 144 results

Social care staff

The Information Centre for Health and Social care collect an annual return of local government social care staffing - the SSDS001.

View all Research articles

Workforce data standards

The final workforce data standards have been published by the LGA, DCSF and its partners. A review process will revisit the standards but no changes will be made to the data standards without full consultation with all partners and the sector as a whole.

View all Research articles

Supporting local authorities to develop their research capacity

This paper provides useful insights into the views and experiences of a range of 15 local authority front line staff, including locality managers and staff from central children's services recently involved in defining and undertaking research projects with support from the NFER and the Local Authority Research Consortium (LARC).

View all Research articles

Hidden Talents: examples of transition of careers guidance from local authorities to schools

The LGA commissioned  the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to collate case study examples of how local authorities are supporting schools in their enhanced role to provide independent and impartial careers guidance to young people in Years 9 to 11.

View allEmployment and skills articles
View all Research articles

Local Government Workforce Survey 2011/12

The survey was conducted by the LGA's Research and Information team. The LGA will use findings from the survey to help support local authorities. This summary report provides data on key workforce metrics.

View all Research articles

Survey of research capacity in local authorities

Researchers working in and with local authorities require a broad knowledge of research methods and a good understanding of local government, research from the LGA has found.

View all Research articles

Census 2011 – output area look-ups

The Office for National Statistics has released a number of Census geography look-up products.

View all Research articles

Census of Local Authority Councillors 2013

The report of the seventh census of local authority councillors in England has been published. The census provides the most comprehensive 'snapshot' of local government representation and analyses of trends over time.

View all Research articles

Local Government Association Reuse Survey

The LGA commissioned Populus to conduct a poll of consumers to understand their views and motivations for reusing items and buying second hand products. 

View allWaste articles
View all Research articles

Local Government Earnings Survey 2014/15

The survey collects details of individual local government posts; the results are based on around 850,000 posts. This not only improves the quality of the data but enables us to produce robust estimates of pay by occupational groups.

View all Research articles

Highlighted pages

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.

Twitter

Cllr Helen Belcher OBE on how her constituents are her priority 👇 “Being a fairly prominent trans woman means I do… https://t.co/cGE62RVARB

5 hours ago