Publications

Health and wellbeing boards have faced a steep learning curve since assuming their full statutory role in April 2013. This guide was undertaken in response to requests from people working with health and wellbeing boards where there was a real desire for social media to be used effectively to help the boards shape policy, explain decisions and deliver objectives.

An advice and best practice guide for councils

This submission, separated into five distinct chapters, sets out how local government can act as the driver to achieve shared priorities between central and local government.

The survey was conducted by the LGA's Research and Information team in October-November 2016 in order to gather information about how community safety partnerships (CSP)/county strategy groups (CSG) and councils' community safety services currently operate.

Supporting people at home (the ethos of Home First from hospital) and discharge to assess are approaches promoted through the COVID-19 Hospital Discharge Requirements first published in March 2020.

These case studies provide some examples of how councils and their partners have been working with women and girls to raise awareness of FGM.

The LGA defines community action as ‘any activity that increases the understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services’.

This strategy formed the basis of all of the LGA's communications activities between 2017-2020.

The case studies have been chosen to illustrate positive approaches to commissioning being taken across the country to address a wide range of public health challenges.

This report assesses how freely English combined authorities are able to raise and spend funding.