The announcement by Michael Gove at the 2022 LGA Conference of the Office for Local Government - OFLOG - kicked off a wide ranging discussion on assurance, productivity and performance management in the sector against a backdrop of continued S114 notices being reported in a small number of authoriti
It's always a pleasure to spend time with colleagues from across local government, and a highlight for me is always the District Council Network (DCN) conference.
The LGA is rightly proud of its sector-led improvement programme, delivered through the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA), a company board I chair as a virtue of my chairmanship of the Improvement and Innovation Board.
For the last few years, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has distributed the Household Support Fund across Stoke-on-Trent. Ensuring this has reached the most needy and vulnerable has involved creating innovative schemes that have enabled local groups and organisations to distribute the funds.
Our ‘Silicon Stoke’ agenda continues to go from strength to strength, and building on our slot in the Innovation Zone at this summer’s LGA Conference, I was asked to submit an article for the latest LGA ‘First’ magazine.
We continue to see a strong commitment from partners to building on the a
