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Preparation for Assurance Peer Challenge Report, Cornwall Council

Final report - October 2023

"We need to acknowledge capacity and demand is complex"

Gareth Jenkins is a partner at Changeology Group. For the past 15 years, Gareth has worked in health and social care both as an NHS employee and external consultant. Specialising in transformation, change, performance improvement and productivity, he has worked across the UK and Ireland delivering better outcomes for staff and patients. Changeology have been working with the Better Care Fund (BCF) Support Programme to deliver improvement support in systems. This is the first of a two part blog.

LGA State of the Sector report: The Visitor Economy

As leaders of place, councils play a crucial role in planning and developing their local visitor economies. Councils are direct providers of visitor and tourist attractions, including castles, historic buildings, museums, theatres, galleries, piers and amusement parks, and they act as destination management organisations for their areas.

Local Government Disability Champions Network (LGDCN)

The Local Government Disability Champions Network (LGDCN) is an informal network of council officers and councillors which is open to anyone in local government who has a formal or informal role as a Disability Champion, is Disabled or considers themselves an ally.

Top tips for chief executives

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.

Challenge 1: Newcastle City Council

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.

Discharge to recover and then assess

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.