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This report forms part of the Local Government Association (LGA) evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides an overview of feedback from participants who attended the LGA/Institute of Directors (IoD) commercial skills training programme in 2017, gained through a series of in depth telephone interviews.

This report forms part of the Local Government Association (LGA) evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides an overview of feedback from participants who attended the LGA/Institute of Directors (IoD) pilot commercial skills training programme in 2016, gained through a series of in depth telephone interviews.

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

The survey was conducted by the Local Government Association’s Research and Information team in July-August 2021 in order that a forthcoming refresh of the LGA’s Work Local proposals be better informed by local authorities’ views of the effectiveness of the current system.

The Standards for employers of public health teams in England set out expectations of good employers who want to enable all their public health staff to work effectively. The Standards were published in 2018 after a wide consultation across the public health system in England and are owned and maintained by the Local Government Association (LGA). This project aimed to evaluate their impact, one year on.

Results from a survey of local authorities that explored recent changes by central government to both funding and policy in the early years sector. The survey focused in the cap on central spend, maintained nursery schools, early years entitlements, provision for disadvantaged children and early years practitioners.

The survey was conducted by our research and information team between 23 November and 15 December 2017 to gather up-to-date information about the approaches to pay ultimately taken by local authorities in light of the 2017 School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document’s provisions for the main pay range.

Between January and February 2022, the LGA conducted an online survey of members of its six Combined Authority Networks. This was to evaluate the LGA’s support in running these networks on the capacity and capability of members’ organisations to deliver their devolution deal objectives.

In June 2023, the Local Government Association sent an online survey to councillors in England and Wales, to investigate the extent to which they had experienced abuse or intimidation

This report is part of a series of surveys of all councils in England and Wales, collecting key workforce data on how the sector is responding to COVID-19. An online survey was emailed to heads of human resources, or a nominated contact, in councils from England and Wales. The data requested related to the week ending the preceding Friday.