Publications

Every child deserves a good school place, but that isn’t currently available to everyone. Government rules ban councils and council-maintained schools from helping academies and free schools improve. But given their excellent track record in maintaining high educational standards and in turning around failing schools, councils need to be recognised as effective education improvement partners, ready and able to support schools of all types.

This toolkit has been developed to support delivery of the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government in England 2018.

This week is an opportunity to celebrate the work of councils up and down the county.

During these tough times, interest in commercial activity – both improving internally delivered services and establishing new delivery models – continues to grow.

This paper is the very start of our campaign ahead of the Spending Review. We have published a series of papers, commissioned by LGA boards, which start the new thinking around building the case for long term, sustained investment in local government as well as laying out the positive outcomes this would deliver for the country.

Working with local partners, Worcestershire County Council has developed a smart, mobile-responsive, information-sharing ‘professionals portal’ that builds an accurate multiagency picture of children and their families and supports the county’s Family Front Door initiative, which provides a single referral pathway for accessing council and partner support services.

Over the last year, as the legislative agenda has been focused on delivering Britain’s exit from the EU for the UK, we have had to take a different approach to our campaigning on behalf of our councils.

LG Inform presents up-to-date published data about your local area and the performance of your council or fire and rescue service.

The Jo Cox Commission report makes recommendations for local action, and indicates that local leaders in councils, the wider public sector and business have a critical role in tackling loneliness.

Councils must develop a different and closer relationship with their communities as the delivery of public services moves towards collaboration, empowerment and prevention.