Local Government Association

“Levelling up has the potential to transform people’s lives and livelihoods, with councils best placed to make this happen."

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The Local Government Association has begun to work with the sector, professional associations, and other groups to map the different elements which currently provide assurance of the performance of local government, in the interests of clarity and transparency and to help understanding of how they all fit together. 

This follows a recommendation from the LGA’s recent corporate peer challenge.

We aim to map the various elements that provide assurance of the performance of local government and to demonstrate how they all fit together. We hope that this framework will be useful both for councils and the public.

Given the right powers and resources over employment and skills funding for every place, councils could build on their track record of helping get people back into work.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster City Council, known as London’s Bi-Borough, adopted a collaborative approach to drive transformation in 2018 with the ambition of being the number one SEND service in the country; a target which has been accomplished.

This stark evidence shows a concerning increase in harmful alcohol dependency across the country since the pandemic.

Blog post from Councillor David Fothergill on the importance of vaccine uptake to help tackle the rise in measles cases.