Publications

A guide for local authorities

Councils are making use of behavioural insights to improve health.

Examples of how local councils support people with autistic spectrum conditions

LGA's proposal for a devolved employment support, put forward to the DWP and the Treasury in November 2015. 

This report outlines the findings of an online survey which asked Directors of Public Health in England about the introduction of a public health objective within the Licensing Act.

The LGA has worked in partnership with providers and commissioners of independent health complaints advocacy services to develop practice guidance for commissioning these important local services.

The purpose of this paper is to identify ways in which the leadership skills and capacity required in local government to understand and exploit digital tools and approaches effectively can best be developed and supported.

The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of operating principles and to identify a small number of practical options for establishing the coordinated programme leadership and support at national, regional and local level required to drive forward the take-up of relevant digital tools, technologies and approaches across the local government sector and to tackle cross-cutting iss

The purpose of this paper is to explore the wider potential of digital tools, technologies and approaches to support ‘transformation' – that is the fundamental redesign of local services so that they deliver better outcomes, in a more targeted and timely fashion, at less cost – building on existing exemplars.

The demographic and financial context in which the Care Act's reforms are being embedded demands that local authorities are pro-active in transforming their ways of working and business processes, to meet demand and capacity challenges.