Publications

This workbook has been designed as a distance learning aid for local councillors. It is intended to provide councillors with insight and assistance with the key skills which will help you to be most effective in your role.

This workbook has been designed as a distance learning aid for local councillors. It is intended to assist councillors to gain and develop key skills which will help you to be most effective in your role.

This report identifies congestion as a serious problem for economic development, quality of life and public health. It also identifies the steps that innovative councils have taken to reduce congestion and its impacts. 

The asset-based approach sees citizens and communities as co-producers of health and wellbeing. It promotes community networks, relationships and friendships as a way of providing mutual help and support and empowers communities to control their futures and create tangible resources for themselves.

A good practice guide for councils communicating during periods of extreme weather. It is designed to help you develop a council-wide communications strategy to help your council prepare for, and react to, adverse weather and ensure you are able to communicate effectively with your residents. 

We commissioned Shared intelligence (Si) to produce this guide explaining what local economic development (ED) services do for the communities they serve, why they are important, the challenges they face, and the skills and knowledge they will need in the coming years.

Councils have been working together to improve their procurement practices and collaborative opportunities to improve value for money for many years now, commonly aggregating spend through framework agreements.

This guide has been written to help councils in an emergency position mobilise their leisure service. It is not intended to instruct or encourage councils to bring leisure services back in-house but instead provides appropriate tools and considerations to support the process. Councils are advised to take their own due diligence to evaluate their individual options. The guide is correct as of June 2021.