Local Government Association

The role of the chief executive in ensuring good governance and assurance practice is paramount. These top tips are designed to support chief executives to keep at ‘front of mind’ the key elements of good governance and assurance.

Ensuring we get the best for people leaving care.

It’s January 2024, and the return of the LGA’s officer leadership development programme and annual competition, the Local Government Challenge. For challenge one, our cohort of 10 officers, participating from councils all over the country, headed to Newcastle City Council in the North East.

John Bolton is a former director of social services and a former strategic finance director at the Department of Health. For the past decade, John has worked as an independent consultant with health and care systems across the United Kingdom on effective and efficient use of resources, including the most cost-effective way of managing the discharge of older people from hospital. He has been working with the Better Care Fund Support Programme to deliver improvement support to systems.

Feedback report - 14 to 17 November 2023

The event highlighted the importance of building council capabilities to deliver housing retrofit and decarbonisation programmes, fostering partnerships, and supporting stakeholders to advance the wider agenda.

In this blog, Lindsey Martin, Partners in Care and Health Workforce Advisor, takes us to Bournemouth for takes us to Bournemouth for the launch of their new equality, diversity and inclusion workbook. It’s Friday 1 December, it’s the last day of the National Conference for Adult and Children's Services (NCASC), and it’s been snowing!

An inspiring celebration of local government apprenticeship talent.