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Flood resilience: new directions in recovery
Andrew Walkerlooks at the role councils play in helping communities recovering from floods.
England & Wales
Publications
We have an extensive catalogue of publications - research reports, long read articles, toolkits and best practice guidelines - that stem from our work with our member councils and other collaborations.
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Local health systems: relationships not structures
In this paper, based on interviews with council officers, we seek to develop an understanding of local government’s role within systems for health and wellbeing.
England & Wales
Bundle: Back to school
The autumn school term is facing uncertain times which look set to persist into 2023 following reports of record use of foodbanks, school uniform banks…
Scotland
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Primer: The planning system
This primer introduces the planning process, common terms and phrases and details current issues within the planning system. It is part of a series of…
England & Wales, Scotland
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Achieving outcomes based commissioning in home care
This report outlines the work LGiU has completed recently in outcomes based commissioning for home care.
England & Wales
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Financial sustainability
This guide outlines different approaches that can be employed to put council run services on a sustainable financial footing.
England & Wales
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Devolution: A State of the Nation
For all the focus on Europe, it could be devolution that is the critical constitutional change of our era. Andrew Walker looks in depth at the prospects for radical change in local government.
England & Wales
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Key to Care, one year on
One year on from the Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, our report card looks at the 11 recommendations from the report and the state of home care at the moment.
England & Wales
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Resilience in Practice
This policy paper looks at what resilience means for local authorities and argues that for resilience to really work it should be built on a partnership between local institutions, communities and citizens.
England & Wales, Scotland
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Care and continuity: Contingency planning for provider failure
This practical guide to developing contingency and continuity plans in order to deal with the interruption or failure of social care providers, was developed on behalf of ADASS, the Department of Health and the LGA.
England & Wales, Scotland
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The shape of things to come: pre-election manifesto discussions
This is a short report of two discussions that we held for our policy network before the general election to discuss key points from the party manifestos as they related to local government.
England & Wales
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Under Construction: are councils ready to get the nation building?
New research from LGiU looks at the role that councils will play in future house building. Are they ready to take on an enabler role and create the partnerships that will get the homes that we need built?
England & Wales
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Project resilience
Project resilience is intended to stimulate a debate about resilience in the 21st century that puts local democracy at the heart of the concept.
England & Wales
