Local Government Association

Resources to support councils in building more equal, inclusive and cohesive communities.

The LGA’s Workforce team provides advice and support to councils on equalities, diversity, and inclusion in the workforce.

Our leadership and managerial development programmes offer support to local politicians and officers to promote fairness, tackle inequality and enable greater diversity and inclusion.

Working differently with communities can have significant impacts on people’s health and wellbeing.

Our peer support offer to councils includes access to bespoke peer support and equalities frameworks to support councils to addressing equalities, diversity, and inclusion.

Councils play a critical role in reducing inequalities and enhancing inclusion and cohesion within their communities.

Early evidence suggests that some groups are on average less likely to get vaccinated than others.

Environmental engineer Katie Patrick's keynote presentation at our behavioural insights conference highlighted how gamification design can be integrated with behavioural science to ‘nudge’ people’s behaviour in response to the climate emergency. Below is the transcript of our Q&A session with Katie.