Publications

This practical guidance aims to assist councils to turn their commercial plans into reality.

There are a number of ‘stages’ in the planning process, and this Toolkit is structured to take you through each stage of these in turn.

Explore the elements of the draft improvement and assurance framework for local government.

This short guide gives information on the role of combined authority mayors, what they will do and what this means for the residents they serve.

A guide to help councils navigate devolution deals, with a particular focus on understanding the lessons from developing a deal to delivering it.

Our call for evidence of abuse and intimidation of councillors was launched in October 2021. This report sets out the findings and recommendations for the future of local democracy.

Our publication outlines how councils can better support councillors to prevent and handle abuse and includes principles for councils to consider, top tips and good practice case studies.

Following the successful completion of the Leading and Learning Programme (L&LP) this report seeks to capture the learnings across all of the individual authorities involved, the process and the outputs from the Action Learning Sets (ALS) and the output from the final symposium.

This workbook should serve as a useful reminder of some of the key skills, approaches and tactics that make for good influencing skills.

This is a guide to the provisions of the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2020, Early Years Foundation Stage (Learning and Development and Welfare Requirements) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No.