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

Councils have been working together to improve their procurement practices and collaborative opportunities to improve value for money for many years now, commonly aggregating spend through framework agreements.

The 10th anniversary of the ban is a time to look back at what has been achieved. While it took a long time to get the legislation introduced – cinemas first started restricting smoking in the 1970s – when it did happen it was pretty seamless.

At a time when councils face difficult choices about services in the light of reducing budgets, the LGA’s Waste and Recycling Programme supported several projects involving councils across England to run projects to help councils make productivity savings in delivering waste services.

In our last membership survey, 89 per cent of council leaders, frontline councillors and officials surveyed told us the LGA’s lobbying on behalf of local government was important.

The Digital Economy Act 2017 makes provision about electronic communications infrastructure and services.

The Act sets out new duties on English local authorities with the aim of preventing homelessness.

The Bus Services Act provides Mayoral Combined Authorities with significant London-style powers to franchise local services.

The Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 is intended to strengthen neighbourhood planning.

Birmingham City Council has invested in developing good relationships with supported housing providers which have resulted in progressive conversations about meeting needs differently. This forms part of our adult social care markets and commissioning resource.