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Preparation for Assurance Peer Challenge Report: Gloucestershire County Council

Final report: September 2023

Challenge 3: Wiltshire Council

In March the LG Challenge 2024 cohort headed to the South West to tackle their third challenge, hosted by Wiltshire Council.

Financial resilience in children’s services

Alongside the wider LGA corporate finance offer, we have a specific offer to help local authorities to better understand the use of resources and capacity across children’s services and the impact of this on budgets.

Cyber security and resilience blueprint series

The LGA is developing a series of blueprints to support councils review and establish their strategic and operational approach to managing their cyber defences and bolstering their resilience plans in the event of a cyber-attack.

Roundtable on discriminatory abuse, 14 July 2022

This is a summary of the discussions that took place in the breakout rooms at the Roundtable event, which followed presentations. The discussions were structured in response to four questions. As well as responding to the question, participants made suggestions about future developmental work, which have been summarised below.partner

Past Challenges

Hosting a challenge provides councils with an invaluable opportunity to raise the profile of their council, whilst calling on a diverse set of