Publications

The So What, What Next? project was designed by the Transforming Care empowerment steering group to look at ways of supporting people with a learning disability or autism who have recently been discharged from hospital to explore their skills and passions and to find ways to contribute these to their local communities.

This guidance framework outlines the 12 key components of effective coalitions and includes a development tool for councillors, officers and regional teams to use in developing their own local arrangements.

This guidance sets out the statutory requirements for agencies and explores how the community trigger might be implemented locally.

A summary of the key principles of the Care Act 2014, setting out the universal and specific duties for councils in supporting unpaid carers.

Getting people home from hospital or helping them maintain their independence in their own home for longer are long-held policy goals; they also underpin the Better Care Fund policy and support programme, as well as the Local Government Association’s integration vision.

A briefing for local government and health and wellbeing boards

The council role in school place planning: Making sure there are enough school places locally' looks at some of the measures taken by councils to meet the recent surge in demand for school places and gives a five-point plan which the LGA believes is necessary to ensure councils have the funding and power to create the further new places needed.   

Learning and development for councillors is important in ensuring that councils and councillors deliver what communities need. The Councillor Development Charter supports councils to enrich their councillor development programmes.

Councillor mentoring undertaken by our cohort of councillor peers is an important part of our Sector Support programme funded by the UK Government. Our councillor mentoring helps councils and councillors to receive the support they need to deliver services to the public as effectively as possible.

The Local Government Association commissioned the Learning and Work Institute and Policy in Practice to review the cumulative impact of welfare reform on people, communities and services.