Publications

Our innovation and transformation offer outlines the programmes and improvement support we are offering to councils in 2018/19.

The adult social care funding and integration survey was conducted by the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Research and Information Team

£15 million funding boost to enable the public sector to work together to support building new homes

Results of a survey of readers’ views on first magazine and firstonline, the LGA’s membership magazine, published in print monthly. The survey sought feedback from readers on the magazine’s current content and possible future developments.

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.

A WPI Economics report for the Local Government Association

It is now over two years since the referendum of June 2016 and the decision to leave the European Union. By the time the LGA Conference meets next year in 2019, we will no longer be members of the EU.

Drinking and drug problems remain, sadly, all too common. While alcohol consumption is falling, too many adults still regularly consume more than they should.

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 report forms part of the Local Government Association evaluation of sector-led improvement. It provides an overview of feedback from graduates who comprised cohort 17 of the National Graduate Development Programme (ngdp), which finished in the summer of 2017.