Publications

This guide is for senior members and officers who contribute to their authority’s strategic planning, performance, finance and/or risk management.

This guidance on social cohesion authored by Belong and endorsed by the LGA, aims to help local authorities fulfil this role. It provides local authorities with the tools to address the challenges they face and share good practice, with the goal of building cohesive communities.

The LGA commissioned research with councils, stakeholders, and parents and carers across 60 English local authorities. It identified effective approaches to meeting the national GLD target, alongside barriers such as deprivation and poverty, limited access to high-quality early years education and childcare, workforce shortages, poor data sharing, and gaps in support.

This third guidance note focuses on the high-level principles that can be used to develop estimated expenditure, funding and balance sheet positions for the new unitary council/s.

The following checklist outlines a range of key actions that must be undertaken at each stage of the LGR process, along with links to resources that will help councils to deliver those actions.

A selection of ‘live’ case studies presented in the 2025 Innovation Zone programme.

The Local Government Association (LGA) and Solace are delighted to present the Local Government Senior Leadership Development Framework, as part of the LGA's Sector Support programme, funded by the UK Government.

This guide provides advice and guidance on the publicity restrictions that should be observed by local authorities during the pre-election period.

In December 2025 to January 2026, the Local Government Association (LGA) distributed an online survey to the chief financial officers of English councils. The purpose of the survey was: to assess the financial position of councils in setting their budgets for the 2026/27 financial year; to gauge the likelihood of councils to need to apply for exceptional financial support (EFS); and to explore councils’ positions on a range of other financial topics, such as dedicated schools grant (DSG) deficits related to special

The Healthy Child programme is the cornerstone of England’s universal public health nursing offer for babies, children and young people. It is delivered by health visitors (for children aged 0–5) and school nurses (for children and young people aged 5–19, or up to 25 for care leavers and those with special educational needs and disabilities).