✨ New! LGIU’s Future Local Lab launches today 🔗 lgiu.org/future-local-lab/ Making sure that #localgov everywhere can learn from the very best in thought leadership and innovation being developed by colleagues worldwide in response to shared challenges

.@joncarrwest @LGiU looks ahead to a year that promises to be anything but predictable themj.co.uk/a-year-of-reform via @themjcouk

🎉 We are so excited to unveil the outstanding shortlist for the 2024 LGIU & CCLA Cllr Awards in Eng & Wales...🥁 drum roll please... 🎉 ⬇️ ⬇️ lgiu.org/events/cllr-awards/…

Financial Sustainability in Scottish local government Speaking to @SP_LocalGov, LGIU Chief Executive @joncarrwest gave evidence alongside Abdool Kara from the National Audit Office. Drawing on learnings from LGIU's Local Democracy Research Centre, and our extensive membership network in the UK and internationally, key areas raised included: - The trajectory of increasing demand, reduced grant funding from 2010 and the increased risk level from certain council commercialisation projects in English local government. - Moving the deck chairs on financial accountability and the need to empower and encourage professionalisation amongst elected members for scrutiny. - A greater basket of revenue-raising options and the need to expand the autonomy to raise local revenue levers to recognise the diversity of Scotland's 32 councils. - A place-based approach to breaking demand cycles in housing, education, and social care to move towards the preventative models which the sector recognises as imperative. - Breaking the "pilot purgatory" where great ideas and innovations fail to get joined up across a system. - Time to worry about local government financial resilience in Scotland was yesterday. The lesson from England is do not wait for things to fall over. - Verity House Agreement. Better to have it than not have it, but the real disappointment over key principles being bypassed necessitates real demonstration from Scottish Government to show its commitment and deliver. Thank you to the committee for the insightful questions and discussions on what is the most important issue for the future of local government. You can read LGIU's full submission, alongside other submissions from COSLA and Solace to the committee here parliament.scot/-/media/file… @COSLA @improvserv @Solacescotland @ArianeBurgessHI

LGIU CE @joncarrwest at our fringe with @thefabians & @NorseGroupLtd is very clear that we need to reset the central/local relationship. "We need standing bodies where local and national government are talking to each other." #localgov

Dave Wilcox – 9/1/47 to 20/7/24: I was sorry to hear about Dave Wilcox's passing away over the weekend.Dave was a Derbyshire County Councillor elected at first for the Glossop West division in 1981 before changing following boundary reviews to the… antmck.uk/113

New: the 5th report from our unique project looking at how #localgov is funded around the world 🌎 providing evidence, ideas & points of comparison. This new report examines the Scottish system @muldoon_smith @sandfordm3 @AuditScotland @SPICe_Research lgiu.org/publication/constra…

We are excited about tomorrow's LGIU members' Summit tomorrow where we will be discussing the small matter of saving #localgov finance. We have a stellar lineup of panel speakers including @LGAChiefExec @fiscalphillips @andrew_harrop lgiu.org/event/saving-local-…