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Lead member roundtables for housing, children’s, adults and finance members

Lead member roundtables for housing, children’s, adults and finance members

Lead member roundtable report, key findings and learning.

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Place and health: Bridging the gap in health inequalities in bold text on a white background

Place and health: Bridging the gap in health inequalities

This guide provides a high-level overview for councillors and officers on the key issues related to understanding and addressing health inequalities, highlighting how a complex interplay of social and economic factors can shape the health outcomes of people in your community.

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Improving highways maintenance productivity

A councillor's guide to technology and leading practice on road treatments.

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ASC Commissioning Self Evaluation Framework (CSEF)

This Self Evaluation Framework has been produced to support ASC commissioners working in local authorities to; build a clear picture of their commissioning landscape, reflect on the effectiveness of their current approach and identify priority areas for action and accelerate improvement with confidence. The Framework also signposts relevant support, resources and shared learning to guide and enhance improvement activity.

Local government reorganisation: Cyber, digital, data and technology considerations Research report, April 2025

Local government reorganisation: Cyber, digital, data and technology considerations

This report outlines how to embrace digital transformation opportunities for continuous change and transformation during and beyond LGR.

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Anti-social behaviour case review process: Survey of councils, March - April 2025

The survey was conducted to inform and support anti-social behaviour policy development and explores the local authority’s threshold used to initiate a case review, the choice of case hearing chair, as well as promotion of the process among the community.

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Empowering local climate action: Advice to government in bold teal text on a white sheet with the purple LGA logo in the top left

Empowering local climate action: Advice to government

This report presents advice on how to build collaboration between the new UK Government and councils to deliver on the shared ambition for responding to climate change.

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LGA Business plan 2025-2028

LGA business plan 2025-2028

This business plan sets out how the LGA will deliver its goals and realise its vision.

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Data and impact framework for asset-based work

A practical guide for meaningful measurement in whole system transformation programmes.

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Emissions Trading Scheme extension to waste: Survey of councils, January to February 2025

In January 2025, the Local Government Association (LGA) sent an online survey to Directors of Environments within single-tier and county councils in England to explore the impact of the costs and viability of different options for local government to mitigate the potential cost to the sector of extending the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to waste from January 2028.

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