LGA Group - Getting Closer

The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national voice for local authorities and works alongside a range of partner organisations to promote better local government:

• Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA)
• Local Government Employers (LGE)
• Public Private Partnerships Programme (4ps)
• Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS)
• The Leadership Centre for Local Government

The LGA Group (the LGA plus the five organisations referred to above) work with and on behalf of the local government sector, and look to councils for leadership. We are politically led, politically active and cross party and we work as one to assist councils and their partners to improve public services and strengthen local democracy.

Each organisation has a distinct and unique role with individual expertise and specialisms, but all have a common purpose: to work together to offer comprehensive and affordable programmes to help build local government capacity and address the challenge of improvement.

Our shared ambition is to make an outstanding contribution to the success of local  government. Together we work with and on behalf of councils to:

• lobby for changes in policy and legislation
• build a strong and positive reputation for local government
• support them and their partnerships to continuously improve and be innovative.

We provide services at the national level which support and are complementary to the regional and local support that is available for councils, as well as the work councils themselves undertake.

The LGA Group organisations are committed to working together to support local government more efficiently and effectively. Our ‘Getting Closer’ programme seeks to:

• enhance the LGA Group’s focus on councils and councillors; and
• further integrate the work of the Group, to reduce costs, maximise efficiencies and improve the quality and flexibility of the services we provide.