In February 2025, The Procurement Act (2023) will come into force, changing the way that public bodies – including local authorities – procure goods and services. In order to gauge councils’ awareness of and readiness for the procurement reforms, the Local Government Association (LGA) sent an online survey to Heads of Procurement of all 317 local authorities in England.
This must know guide provides an overview of how to implement personalisation in adult social care, offering an introduction to the principles and practices of personalisation and to implementing these concepts.
This resource pack provides an overview of councils' responsibilities towards care leavers and showcases best practice examples of how councils across the country are providing excellent and innovative support.
The adult social care workforce in a place is large, diverse and dispersed across many roles, services and organisations. Only seven per cent is directly employed in a council. Here you will find learning to help you to feel more confident and equipped to develop your future workforce for your place.
This toolkit provides an accessible and digestible resource to support the practicalities of dealing with empty homes, and gives officers with a range of tools which can support councils to progress to a proactive service.
This proforma is a tool to assist with the management of risk arising from Equal Pay issues for Chief Officers who lead on policy implementation that impacts upon pay and terms and conditions of the council’s workforce; and the council’s statutory equalities obligations.
This proforma provides those elected members with a responsibility for the governance, policy, scrutiny and auditing of pay and terms and conditions of its workforce; and for the compliance of the council’s statutory equalities obligations, with a tool to assist with the management of risk arising from Equal Pay.
