Publications

From 1 April 2013, responsibility for public health and other health services will be given to local agencies, including councils, clinical commissioning groups and the new health and wellbeing boards. Local Healthwatch will be the new local champion for health and social care.

This introduction to the role of peers is aimed at supporting new LGA peers to be ready and confident to be part of an LGA peer challenge team.

Archives hold the unique and irreplaceable story of organisations, businesses, communities and individuals across the country. The National Archives, as archive sector lead in England, has written this reference guide to help councils better understand what archives are, why they are so important, and where to go for further information.

Findings of the evaluation, undertaken by Shared Intelligence, of the complete SLI programme, delivered by the LGA.

Setting out the changing role of a firefighter

We are determined to be a service that reflects the communities it serves.

A collection of essays on six years of public health in local government

We welcome the consultation from Ofgem on the allocation of voluntary redress payments by energy providers and the aim of improving the process for the maximum benefit of energy consumers.

Local authorities have a central role in achieving improvements in air quality.

This sets out the increasing contribution to society and the economy older people can make through empowered local government and challenges the commonly-held belief that an ageing population is a burden.