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Licensing committees: Why join?

Councillors who are part of their council's licensing committee have an opportunity to play a more active role in operational decisions that affect their local area. From community safety to place shaping it's a chance to make a real difference to the local community.

Corporate Peer Challenge reports: pre-2021

Following a Corporate Peer Challenge, the council will publish the final report as well as an action plan in response. The LGA will also publish the final report.

Transitional safeguarding resources

This resource is a one-stop-shop in response to a request from the attendees to the Transitional Safeguarding webinars run by Partners in Care and Health (PCH). It has been developed by the Transitional Safeguarding Reference Group, hosted by PCH. 

UK Government Resilience Framework

In December 2022, the UK Government Resilience Framework (UKGRF/framework) was published, following a consultation. The framework is intended to bolster our national resilience.

Housing Advisers Programme 2022/23 project summaries

Twenty-one successful projects received money from the programme to promote, facilitate and enhance their role and capacity to meet their local housing need. These projects aren't likely to complete until 2024/25.

Building Safety Levy

The Local Government Association broadly supports the government’s package of measures to ensure that the burden of paying to fix historical building safety defects does not fall on leaseholders. However, we continue to have significant concerns about the proposed implementation of the Building Safety Levy.