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Councils key to making adult social care reform ‘stick’, says LGA

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

Overview

HICM: Intermediate Care: Croydon

Overview

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. The Alliance began by focusing on residents aged 65+, aiming to reduce avoidable hospital admissions, and help older people remain independent for as long as possible.

To guide the work, the partners committed to principles such as:

HICM: Intermediate Care: Halton

Overview

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Halton’s intermediate care provision was delivered through several separate services. These included the Rapid Access Rehabilitation Service, a Capacity and Demand Team, falls prevention team, hospital discharge teams and a Frailty team. While each service provided valuable support, they operated largely independently.

HICM: Intermediate Care: Stoke and Staffordshire

Overview

Demand pressures and increasing costs were putting strain on the system, making it difficult to maintain service quality and meet the needs of service users efficiently. There was recognition that no single partner could deliver systemic improvement alone; effective collaboration across Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Staffordshire County Council and Midlands Partnership Foundation was essential for meaningful change.

Action

Water safety

Councils play a key role in tackling water safety, working with the Fire and Rescue Service, police and RNLI to assess and respond to risks locally. They also play a key role in educating residents about the risks posed by water.

Quick guide to understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern

This framework is not intended as guidance prescribing exactly what must be done. Its intention is to empower practitioners across all sectors, supporting consistent, confident decision-making about safeguarding concerns, which are rooted in the legal framework and statutory guidance.

Improving the post-decision planning process to deliver better places in the West of England.

The scope of this project was to understand changes in design quality beyond the grant of either full or outline planning permission and to strengthen the role of local planning authorities in securing higher quality in the final build out of development schemes.

Pan-London skills mapping programme, council-led housing delivery

This project was led and managed by the London Housing Directors’ Group in collaboration with the North London Housing Partnership. It was supported by London Councils and commissioned by LB Islington as the North London Housing Partnership’s host borough.

Improving the Private Rented Sector in Stoke-on-Trent

We commissioned consultants to consider approaches to improve the private rented sector, undertake research and best practice from other councils and from this propose a number of options to help the team address poor management and disrepair in the private rented sector.

Corporate Peer Challenge: South Ribble Borough Council

National strategy for autistic children, young people, and adults: 2021 – 2026

The Government published the next strategy to improve the lives of autistic people on 21 July 2021.

Toolkit to help prevent modern slavery in small businesses

The toolkit, jointly developed by STOP THE TRAFFIK and Shiva Foundation, seeks to provide practical guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on how they can prevent modern slavery in their business operations. The toolkit has practical steps on how your SME suppliers can assess their company’s risks; mitigate the risks affecting their employees and their agency staff as well as how the report and remedy any incidents.

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