Publications

To further its work in this area, the LGA carried out a survey of housing managers working within local councils in England to gather insight into the effect – or likely effect – of the LHA freeze on local housing, ranging from homelessness to house building. 

This report outlines the 17th set of results in a series of regular LGA public polls on resident satisfaction with local councils.

Do you know what your residents think about your council? Are they happy with the way you run things and how you keep them informed? Find out how you can run more effective resident satisfaction surveys and consultations with your communities with this new resource.

This survey was conducted by the LGA's Research and Information team between 16 June and 5 July 2017, on behalf of the LGA and Public Health England, in order to better understand the use of naloxone across local authorities, and to demonstrate how it is considered by local authorities as part of their response to drug-related deaths.

This report forms part of the Local Government Association evaluation of sector-led improvement.

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

The Local Government Workforce Survey 2015/16 provides information on key elements of the local government workforce. The survey was conducted by the Local Government Association (LGA) and updates previous surveys in the series.

The Centre for Local and Regional Government at Cardiff University carried out an independent evaluation of our Corporate Peer Challenge programme to help assess its effectiveness, impact and value for money.

The survey was conducted by the LGA's Research and Information team in October 2016 in order to gather information about local authorities' plans and preparations in case of severe weather, to help LGA's lobbying of central government and to highlight the scale of authorities' efforts.

For each quarter an excel sheet containing all data for each local authority and a PDF overview containing headline figures and breakdowns by region and authority type is published.