Councillor guide to tackling modern slavery; Awareness of modern slavery and the number of reported survivors has increased at a time when financial pressure is mounting on essential council services like regulatory and community safety services, housing, and social care that are all key to disrupting slavery and supporting survivors.
Local government is being grant funded to develop Connect to Work (CtW), a voluntary Supported Employment ‘place, train and maintain’ service to help disabled people, people with health conditions and those with complex barriers, find and stay in work. This series of top tips aims to give local government officers and elected members a good understanding of the benefits of CtW, how to make good use of it, and how it can be aligned to other council and external work.
This research looks at wider skills for infrastructure demands through four case studies, identifying some of the policy challenges national government will need to address to deliver national and local growth ambitions.
This report sets out recommendations to inform the Local Government Association’s (LGA) dialogue with government and its members in support of ‘place-based’ approaches to public services.
We have developed a data dictionary that brings commonly used data terms together into a handy single reference source. This document can help non-data professionals understand basic data concepts.
This report explores the transformative impact of housing-led regeneration through nine case studies, supported by analysis of housing delivery in non-metropolitan settlements across England.
This research by Isos Partnership builds on previous research into home to school transport carried out for the LGA in 2019. This report brings the analysis of pressures on the system up to date and explores the opportunities for future policy change in the context of potential wider reforms to the SEND system.
In May 2025, the LGA sent an online survey to all councillors in England and Wales to investigate the extent to which abuse and intimidation remains rife in public life, as well the nature and scale of abuse and intimidation. This research report provides the findings of the survey.
Liberal Democrats saw another successful local election, the seventh in a row where the party made gains, winning control of councils such as Shropshire and Gloucestershire.
