Be a councillor
Is there any more fulfilling role than being a leader within your community and council, working with the people we represent, advocating for them and creating impactful change?
LGA leadership challenge
The Local Government Challenge is an annual competition and leadership development programme for local government officers.
Future leaders
The National Graduate Development Programme (NGDP) is the LGA’s flagship graduate scheme.
Acting on climate change
Empowering councils to act locally would halve the cost of delivering net zero nationally.
Credit their service
The principles of the Armed Forces Covenant are that ‘those who serve/have served in the Armed Forces and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services’.
Helping councils decarbonise
As a country, as a planet, we must reach net zero carbon emissions – but that is certainly easier said than done.
Balancing budgets, planning places
The lack of extra funding for local services in December’s provisional local government finance settlement has left councils facing a growing financial crisis.
‘Unprecedented’ costs and pressures on councils
It is shaping up to be a busy year for local government in 2024.
Keir Starmer – you’re no Margaret Thatcher
I would like to wish everyone across the local government sector, officers and councillors alike, a very prosperous new year.