This report explores local government and their partners’ ambition to reduce the travelling distance of food and drink from ground/sea to plate, by growing local businesses and delivering jobs in food and drink related sectors.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to local transport as the demands for transport vary across place, just as there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting someone into work. This report calls on the government to help councils bring down the barriers to economic inclusion.
This analysis explores future models for funding for local economic growth, development and regeneration initiatives and activities, drawing on lessons learned from recent policy and practice.
This report is in response to heads of IT highlighting challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across all IT disciplines, and increasing pressures facing IT teams. All heads of IT in all English councils were asked to complete an online survey.
A report detailing a series of workshops around the challenges and opportunities for local authorities integrating Local Enterprise partnerships (LEPs).
The Local Government Association conducted a survey of local authorities to identify the impact of the UK’s mobile network operators’ confirmation to the Government that they do not intend to offer 2G and 3G mobile networks past 2033 at the latest.
This document aims to support directors and their senior team to develop proactive, protective strategies and capabilities to enhance the cyber resilience of their service; some recommendations are technical, some organisational and some are about your people.
The LGA commissioned Shared Intelligence to research and review national and local opportunities in tacking economic inactivity both place-based and support for people.
Based on our analysis and discussions with local government, through a series of roundtable events, this paper sets out below six guiding principles to realise economic inclusion to employment and skills opportunities, and the key role we would like to see local government play.
The LGA is eager to identify how it can assist councils to decide on whether to, how to or when to acquire its shopping centres, and therefore commissioned this study to identify best practice lessons that can be used to aid councils in their decision making and future involvement.
