Local Government Association

We are the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve

LGA launches Sector Support programme 2024/25

Sector support offer for local authorities 2024/25

Local government action to improve children’s health

Best practice in tackling domestic abuse, 18 April 2024

Download the presentations from this webinar.

Top tips for council leaders: early years speech, language and communication

View tips on early years speech, language and communication.

LGA corporate environmental policy

As the voice of local government, the LGA aims to lead by example. This policy sets out our commitment to tackling the climate and ecological emergency and the steps we will take in order to achieve this.

Preparation for Assurance Peer Challenge Report: Gloucestershire County Council

Final report: September 2023

LGA Corporate Peer Challenge: East Devon District Council

Feedback report: 6 – 8 February 2024

Challenge 3: Wiltshire Council

In March the LG Challenge 2024 cohort headed to the South West to tackle their third challenge, hosted by Wiltshire Council.

Data architecture and modelling

Define the structure, integration, storage and management of data assets.

Planning data storage

Plan the management of data to ensure access and changes are controlled.

Data quality management

Enact data governance policy to ensure data meets defined quality standards.

Data security

Maintain the confidentiality and availability of data to safeguard it from threats.

Data governance

Control data in line with legislative and organisational requirements.

Transformation capabilities: Data intelligence

Data needs to be used effectively to inform and prioritise transformation activity, to track progress and to provide service, customer and organisational insights that drive and enable evidence-based change.