Challenge and change

The LGA’s Sector Support programme

Toddler puts her hand to her granddad's. A pane of glass separates them.

An army of community support

When I was elected to Pembrokeshire’s Letterston ward in 2017, my campaign leaflet said we needed “strong, resilient communities”. Never has this resilience been tested as much as in the past year.

High street of an older cobbled city. The shops are modern.

Delivering on social value

Back in 2013, in an effort to improve the social value of the council’s commissioning and procurement, Birmingham City Council adopted a social value policy and a living wage policy, and established the Birmingham Business Charter for Social Responsibility.