Publications
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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. |
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Early Intervention: a citywide approach in Nottingham |
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Building a Civic Community: the ten principles to delivering the Big Society in Westminster The challenge facing local government is to empower communities and individuals with a sense of civic pride. This publication looks at Westmisnter City Council's vision for the Big Society and how Conservative councils and councillors are shaping this agenda. |
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Co-operative Communities: creating a shared stake in our society for everyone The challenge facing local government is to empower communities and individuals with a sense of civic pride. This publication looks at how Labour councils and councillors are shaping this agenda. |
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Community Politics in the 21st century: the challenges and opportunities for community politicians The challenge facing local government is to empower communities and individuals with a sense of civic pride. This publication looks at how Liberal Democrat councils and councillors are shaping this agenda. |
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Filling the talent gap: a new approach to councillor recruitment As part of the Be a Councillor campaign four London councils were paired with executive search firms working on a pro bono basis to reinvigorate their approach to candidate recruitment. This is the story of Emma Will, a candidate identified through the project, who went on to be successfully elected on May 6 2010. |
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Reaching the hearts of Herefordshire Local Government Leadership and Herefordshire Council undertook a joint project to strengthen the fabric of local society and the role of the frontline councillor. This publication tells the story of the Reaching the hearts of Herefordshire project which aimed to: place councillors at the heart of the community; help local public services, the community and voluntary sector to work together and empower and encourage public services and local people to take practical action. |
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People, places and politics: Learning to do things differently Following the first phase of 'whole-area' working, this publication draws on interviews with over 100 people from different parts of the system to tell the story of those involved in Total Place. |
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The 21st Century guide to member induction
For the last year we have been running an online tool which gives local authorities and councillors an idea of how their council is 'rated' in terms of member induction. We are half way through providing individual breakdowns for each region - but this guide gathers together what we have learnt so far on member induction from across the country. |
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Total Place: a practitioner's guide to doing things differently A collection of the experiences, ideas and approaches of a range of Total Place pioneers so far, from programme managers and leads and LG Leadership advisers who worked closely with the pilots. |
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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. |
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Manifesto for a modern local politics Focusing on the 10 key challenges defining the new direction for local government. |
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The premier national guide to recruiting local government talent in your area. |
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People like you are councillors
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Doing things differently What Whitehall can learn from Conservative local government. |
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Thinking Family A new approach to tackling social breakdown. |
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Putting fairness first Local Labour's manifesto for a new term. |
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A Liberal Democrat approach to devolution. |
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Pavement to power Consolidating strengths in pavement politics and campaigning into sustainable political leadership. |
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Rising to the challenge |
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Smart government for hard times The Liberal Democrat local government response to the recession. |
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The Labour local government response to the recession. |
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Cabinet Member for your ward Published as part of LG Leadership's 21st Century Councillor initiative. |
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Devolution with a difference. Published as part of LG Leadership's 21st Century Councillor initiative. |
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The role of overview and scrutiny.
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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. |
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Counting Cumbria |
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Leadership development for the long term LG Leadership recommends top practicioners |
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A must have talent-spotter's recruitment manual for the 2010 London elections. |
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The X Factor - what happened next Recruiting talent for the 2010 London local elections - what happened next. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Leadership Centre for Local Government designed new Civic Pride initiative to encourage confident, capable and visionary local leadership. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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An eight-point manifesto for leadership which reveals the challenges that face local authorities today. |
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Developing by doing: Swindon's leadership journey How did the Leadership Centre actually work with authorities to develop their leadership capacity? Find out in this case study. |
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Politics matters: making cabinets more effective How LG Leadership's cabinet development centres can help cabinets work better. |
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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. |
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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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