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Building lasting futures locally

Regional contacts

Contact details for our regional advisers

LGA Corporate Peer Challenge Progress Review - Shropshire Council

12 May 2026

LGA Corporate Peer Challenge – Progress review: Bath and North East Somerset Council

13 April 2026

School teachers' pay 2026/27 and 2027/28

This page brings together all the information you will need in relation to school teachers’ pay in 2026/27, 27/28 and 28/29. The LGA provides the secretariat for NEOST (National Employers Organisation for School Teachers).

HICM: Intermediate Care: West Sussex

Colleagues in West Sussex were experiencing high demand for long-term adult social care services, needs becoming more complex, and continued financial pressures. Action was taken to strengthen reablement as a core intervention, promoting independence and managing long term care demand. The Community Reablement Service was recommissioned, with approximately £0.72m additional investment.

HICM: Intermediate Care: Croydon

In 2017, Croydon Council, the local NHS Commissioning body, local health providers and voluntary organisations formed the One Croydon Alliance. They signed a legally binding 10 year agreement to work as one system, with shared goals and shared responsibility for local people’s wellbeing.

Housing Advisers Programme 2020/21 project summaries

Seventeen successful projects received money from the programme to promote, facilitate and enhance their role and capacity to meet their local housing need.

LGA Climate Change Programme – Decarbonising Transport Action Learning Sets: session 4

The fourth session marks the penultimate session before the end of the programme. All groups continue to have many hot topics to bring for discussion and this blog summarises the discussions from session 4.

Housing Advisers Programme 2019/20 project summaries

Nineteen successful applicants received money from the programme to promote, facilitate and enhance their role and capacity to meet their local housing need.

NJC/3/22: Additional bank holiday – 8 May 2023

Circular NJC/3/22 sets out arrangements for the bank holiday across the UK to mark the Coronation of King Charles, for staff covered by the National Joint Council for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services.

NJC/2/22 – Response to Major Incidents

Circular NJC/2/22 outlines the agreements for which striking fire personnel may respond to any major incidents where strike action is taking place and during periods of strike actio

One Public Estate

Our award-winning One Public Estate programme – delivered in partnership by the Local Government Association, Office of Government Property (OGP) within the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), supports locally-led partnerships of public sector bodies to kickstart regeneration and transform public service delivery.

Recruitment and retention best practice

Information to support councils create a structured and effective recruitment process using the six P’s: Plan, Promote, Process, Partnerships, People and Pledge.

Digitalisation Councillor Masterclasses: Exploring the 12 outcomes of local government digitalisation

This programme will walk councillors through the 12 outcomes of digitalisation and provide them with the skills, tools, and knowledge to lead and engage with their council’s digitalisation journey.

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