Publications

This publication reviews the Leadership Essentials programme for cabinet members/portfolio holders with responsibility for sport and physical activity.

The Sport Leadership Academy is organised by the Local Government Association (LGA) in partnership with Sport England and is targeted at any Cabinet member/Portfolio holder with responsibility for sport.

A toolkit to help councils encourage and empower women, parents and carers to become local councillors and take on leadership positions.

This document presents thematic areas and the learning shared across the action learning sets, including suggestions on how to tackle specific issues, including for priority three – People and Skills.

Councils are currently half way through a scheduled 40 per cent cut in funding from central government. Having delivered £10 billion of savings in the three years from 2011/12, local authorities have to find the same savings again in the next two years.

The purpose of this guide is to help people in the culture and sport sector understand the process of strategic commissioning in public services and how to engage in it to produce better outcomes for communities.

The LGA commissioned independent research to gather local government views, insights and priorities around a national road pricing system.

Local authorities have a range of duties and wider interests in ensuring the most effective functioning of their local housing markets. They want to ensure affordable, appropriate, good quality housing for everyone in the community within successful and sustainable places.

In response to requests from councils the LGA has commissioned guidance to support the use of secure email across local government.