Our support

Our sector support offer provides comprehensive tools and resources, to support local and combined authorities in delivering critical services to communities, while helping to drive local priorities and improvement across all regions.

This offer includes our sector support programme , funded by the UK Government, which each year provides councillors and officers with access to a range of learning and development opportunities and tools and resources across key areas including governance and assurance, finance, workforce, devolution and LGR, research and data and transformation.

Our regional teams and peers continue to provide highly valued and expert support, including access to mentoring, top team development sessions and wider bespoke support and advice.

Our strengthened corporate peer challenge programme remains a cornerstone of this offer, with 100 per cent of councils receiving this support saying it had a positive impact for their authority.

To find out more about any aspects of this support, please contact the principal adviser for your region (note: the sector support programme is primarily available to English local authorities).

The Sector Support Offer* also includes a range of service-specific support and wider specialist offers, including Partners in Care and Health (adult social care), public health peer reviews, children’s services, cyber, digital and technology, One Public Estate (OPE), Council Housebuilding Support Service (CHoSS), planning (PAS and Pathways to Planning), Joint Inspection Team (JIT), procurement and sustainability, communications improvement support, strategic highways peer review, community cohesion, local resilience programme, which are all funded by UK Government departments (in whole or in part), and culture and sport. Further detail on each of these areas is set out below.

_{* Please note: In some instances, conversations regarding future funding arrangements are ongoing.}