Local Leadership

	Corporate brochure The rules are changing in local government, and leading it isn’t the game it used to be. Today’s local leaders are at the heart of their communities – it is up to them to provide the imagination and the inspiration to create a community out of a place.
	Leadership of place: light touch mapping New examples of partnership working and collaboration across the public sector are emerging all the time. The report sets out a map of current leadership of place activity and identifies possible areas for future collaboration.
	Manifesto for a modern local politics Focusing on the 10 key challenges defining the new direction for local government.
	Finding the X factor The premier national guide to recruiting local government talent in your area.
	People like you are councillors Your guide to becoming a councillor in England. Also available is the guide from the LGA Independet Group about your choices in becoming a local councillor.
	Doing things differently What Whitehall can learn from Conservative local government.
	Thinking Family A new approach to tackling social breakdown.
	Putting fairness first Local Labour's manifesto for a new term.
	The Local Parliament A Liberal Democrat approach to devolution.
	Pavement to power Consolidating strengths in pavement politics and campaigning into sustainable political leadership.
	Rising to the challenge The Conservative local government response to the recession.
	Smart government for hard times The Liberal Democrat local government response to the recession.
	Leading the way The Labour local government response to the recession.
	Cabinet Member for your ward Presenting a new challenge for all councillors. Published as part of the Leadership Centre's 21st Century Councillor initiative.
	Neighbourhood Power Devolution with a difference. Published as part of the Leadership Centre's 21st Century Councillor initiative.
	Leadership of place The role of overview and scrutiny. Published as part of the Leadership Centre's 21st Century Councillor initiative.
	Calling Cumbria Calling Cumbria demonstrates the determination of people across that county, from all walks of life, to work better across boundaries by getting at the opportunities which lurk in the spaces between people and between organisations.
	Counting Cumbria Counting Cumbria provides supporting analysis to Calling Cumbria to quantify the public money going into the county and find out as far as possible what happened to it
	Leadership development for the long term The Leadership Centre recommends top practicioners
	The X Factor A must have talent-spotter's recruitment manual for the 2010 London elections.
	The X Factor - what happened next Recruiting talent for the 2010 London local elections - what happened next.
	Pride of London London is the world's most culturally mixed city and yet politically it does not reflect the richness of its 7.4 million inhabitants. Widening participation and encouraging a more diverse range of people to become councillors is essential if local government in London is to truly benefit from the contribution that all its citizens can make.
	State of the suburbs More than 80 per cent of us live in areas that can be classified as suburban and yet 'suburbs' have played a secondary role in regeneration and urban policy. This report contends that 'city-suburbs' are in fact an organic and correlative part of the vitality of the 'city-region' and aims to start the debate that will put suburbs on the map.

	Civic Pride The Leadership Centre for Local Government has designed the new Civic Pride initiative to encourage confident, capable and visionary local leadership.
	The Dorset Experience Dorset is a very good example of an area which, while understanding the need for all the authorities to work together, welcomed an outside resource to make that happen, to pull people together and create a common agenda. Read on to find out how the Leadership Centre helped the seven authorities involved reach a common sense of purpose.
	Preparing for Power Preparing to take power requires detailed research. You need to consider all your policies not as hypothetical ideas that can be used to make political points, but as part of a real-world programme that will be judged according to what it delivers for residents.
	Politics of Place Politics of Place is an argument about the centrality of place and place shaping as the key role of local government, a guide to a theoretical framework to underpin thinking and work and a practical toolkit with case studies from leading authorities.
	Living leadership An eight-point manifesto for leadership which reveals the challenges that face local authorities today.
	Developing by doing: Swindon's leadership journey How does the Leadership Centre actually work with authorities to develop their leadership capacity? Find out in this case study.
	Politics matters: making cabinets more effective How the Leadership Centre's cabinet development centres can help cabinets work better.
	Civic leadership for the new century The conclusions of a series of workshops organised among a range of political, managerial and community leaders in local government by the Leadership Centre which looked at the major issues facing local government over the coming years.
	Chief executives and leaders: what you really think The results of our MORI survey of chief executives and leaders, to find out what they think about leadership development and to understand their priorities and concerns.

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