Publications

Despite considerable changes in national education policy and school organisation over recent years, councils retain the bulk of their statutory duties. They have a key role as champions of educational excellence for all children and young people in their areas.

How do you know your council is being effective in keeping people safe?

The primary aim of this document is to help senior HR professionals and their teams to develop local action plans for workforce improvement by providing facts and ideas.

This report presents the findings of an end of programme survey completed by participants of the LGA’s Leadership Academy.

The survey was sent to police forces in England and Wales in order to inform on-going national negotiations by providing accurate and up to date information about the composition of the workforce and provide a means for costing claims, offers and their consequences.

This report outlines the twenty second set of results in a series of regular Local Government Association (LGA) public polls on resident satisfaction with local councils, conducted every four months.

A resource to help all councillors to better understand their own local offer and how they can look at the role of evidence in developing and improving early help services.

Findings from the LGA’s peer learning programme.

The Local Government Association commissioned Shared Intelligence to pull together ten case studies of projects supported by the Covenant Fund. This report presents the results of that research.

Local government is facing unprecedented challenges across the board with public services working in an increasingly constrained financial context. Fire authorities have an added challenge that, while instances of fire have generally decreased, they must continue to resource services commensurate with the level of risk present in their area.