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An analysis of local authority CQC assessment reports: What does 'good' look like?

This document is designed to empower local authorities with actional insights and practical tools for driving improvement, ensuring compliance and ultimately delivering better outcomes for those who draw on adult social care services.

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Spending Review 2025 submission: Annexes

The LGA's submission provides a clear business case for increased investment, financial support and a package of measures to give our members more tools to help communities thrive.

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Supporting care leavers: A whole council approach

This guide aims to help all councils to improve their support for care leavers through a whole council approach. This advice applies whether or not your council has chosen to treat care experience as a protected characteristic, and we encourage all councils to work with local care leavers to develop their offers

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Let’s get down to business: Developing a business case for a career academy

This guide has been developed based on the insights from a series of workshops with members of the Care and Health Career Academies Community of Practice. The purpose of this document is to support local areas that wish to set up a career academy, in developing their own business case. It encourages consideration of objectives and aims, key stakeholders and partners as well as impact and benefits of career academy.

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Local Government Chief Executives' Development Framework: a guide to using the framework in chief executive recruitment

This guide has been developed in consultation with HR leaders, Solace and recruiters as a practical toolkit for local authorities and their recruitment partners to consider the principles of the Chief Executives Development Framework in the preparation and delivery of effective recruitment to the Chief Executive role.

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Must know: Safeguarding children

The following guide offers a high-level overview for all councillors of key issues with regard to child safeguarding. Councillors should ensure their council is effectively meeting these duties by considering child safety in all services and decisions.

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Making it happen together: what good care and support look like

A framework of Workforce Together, I and We Statements for people who work in adult social care to embed good practice that puts people at the heart of care and support.

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LGA business plan 2025-2028

This business plan sets out how the LGA will deliver its goals and realise its vision.

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Empowering local climate action: Advice to government

This report presents advice on how to build collaboration between the new UK Government and councils to deliver on the shared ambition for responding to climate change.

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Stand for what you believe in: Be a Liberal Democrat councillor

This guide contains information about how councils work, the role of a councillor and most importantly, what being a Liberal Democrat councillor looks like. Welsh Liberal Democrats edition.

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