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Local government capacity survey: Environmental health

This report highlights challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across the different environmental health specialisms, and increasing pressures facing environmental health teams.

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Local government capacity survey: Building control

This report shows quantitative and qualitative building control workforce data, and highlights challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across all building control disciplines, and the increasing pressures facing building control teams.

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Local government capacity survey: IT

This report is in response to heads of IT highlighting challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across all IT disciplines, and increasing pressures facing IT teams. All heads of IT in all English councils were asked to complete an online survey.

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Local government capacity survey: Adult social care

This report highlights quantitative and qualitative adult social care workforce data showing challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across the different adult social care specialisms, and increasing pressures facing adult social care teams.

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Domestic homicide review survey 2024

The Domestic Homicide Review Survey was sent to all local authorities in England in response to feedback to the Local Government Association regarding the costs and resourcing of Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs).

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The gender pay gap in local government 2023/24

This paper summarises the 2023/24 data submitted by English local authorities as at 19 April 2024.

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Household Support Fund survey report: June/July 2024

From June to July 2024 the Local Government Association (LGA) conducted an online survey to identify the impact that is likely to result from the Government’s plan not to extend the Household Support Fund beyond September 2024.

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Polling on resident satisfaction with councils: Round 38

This report presents the results of the 38th round of polling conducted in June 2024.

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Parental leave policies for councillors

A report to understand the extent to which parental leave policies or arrangements had been introduced for councillors across England.

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Early years education and childcare research report

In April 2024, the LGA launched an online survey which was open to responses for around five weeks. The survey was launched following the announcement of the expansion of the existing early years entitlements and aimed to capture the thoughts of the respondents on the challenges that the expansion may create.

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