We are publishing a new strategy to guide the LGA’s work over the next few years, as well as an accompanying financial plan.
Our strategy is about ensuring that every service we provide, every policy we champion, and every improvement we drive delivers real value to you, our members, and enables you to continue delivering the very best for your residents.
We will continue to work with you on how our new strategy, and supporting business and financial plans, will ensure we remain relevant, responsive and ambitious for the sector.
In that vein, we continue to lobby on your behalf to influence the outcome of the Government’s Spending Review on 11 June, and you can read a summary of the LGA’s submission in this edition.
Over the past few weeks, we have highlighted the financial pressures councils face in respect of the vital local services they provide, including support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, temporary accommodation, free bus passes, adult social care, and council housing.
At the latest Leaders’ Council, held in Essex earlier this month, the LGA and local leaders discussed devolution and local government reorganisation with Local Government and Devolution Minister Jim McMahon, and Lords Minister for Housing and Local Government Baroness Taylor.
Key pressures around councils’ early years provision were also raised with Stephen Morgan MP, the Early Education Minister, who highlighted the impact of high-quality early years education and how councils are central to securing the Government’s ambition of getting the best start in life for our children and young people.
Collaborative conversations such as these are essential for driving positive change at local and national level.