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Adult social care
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- How IDeA can support your council
- The transformation of adult social care
- 'Must knows' for lead members of adults' services
- Performance
- Commissioning
- Workforce
- Carers
- Older people
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Case studies and features
- Briefings and documents on adult social care
- Useful websites
- Social care beacon themes
- Communities of Practice platform
- Adults' and children's services CoP
- Soundbyte
- Direct payments guide for Over 65s published
- Demographic needs forecasting tool pilot
- Articles
- Joint Improvement Partnership
Children and young people
- What's new
- How IDeA can support your council
- Sector-led Safeguarding Programme
- Respect and Protect
- Achieving better outcomes
- Integrated strategy
- Inter-agency governance
- Children's services case studies
- Children's services articles
- Publications and documents
- Soundbyte
- Aiming high for young people: regional events
- Aiming High for Young People: nine regional events
- Children’s services scrutiny toolkit
- ‘Must knows’ for lead members of children’s services
- Useful websites
- Beacon Awards: Better brighter futures
- Shaping the future - online questionnaire
- Narrowing the Gap
- Children's Workforce Network
Community empowerment
- Introduction to community empowerment
- What's new?
- Government expectations for community empowerment
- Evaluating your empowerment performance
- Practical ways to engage with your community
- The Network of Empowering Authorities (NEA)
- Case studies of council and partnership good practice
- Other community empowerment information you will need
- Regional empowerment links
Community safety
- About community safety
- What's new
- What kind of support is available?
- Integrated neighbourhood policing and management
- Consultation, engagement and communication
- Partnership working and commissioning
- Tackling violent crime
- Tackling acquisitive crime
- Reducing re-offending
- Anti-social behaviour
- Alcohol and drugs
- CCTV and surveillance
- Neighbourhood policing
- Domestic violence
- Hate crimes
- Reducing re-offending
- Preventing and tackling anti-social behaviour
Comprehensive performance assessment (CPA)
Connecting with Communities: communications toolkit
- Communications in a recession
- Reputation
- Strategic communications
- Branding and place shaping
- Media relations
- Internal communications
- Community engagement
- Plain English
- e-Communications
- Communications discussion forum
- Communications and marketing community of practice
- Legal issues
- Case studies and articles
Councillor development
- 'Make a difference' – tools to encourage participation
- Being a councillor
- Councillor Comment
- Political skills
- Councillor role descriptions
- 'Frontline' councillors
- Giving councillors the tools for the job
- Resources
- Member development charter
- Member development community of practice
- IDeA development programmes for councillors
Environmental sustainability and climate change
- What's new
- Your sustainability questions answered
- Climate change and energy
- Climate change: adaptation
- Leadership on sustainability
- Local environment
- Transport
- Waste
- Positive Future 2009: conference report
- Links and resources
- Delivering cleaner air
- Promoting sustainable communities through the planning process
- Waste and recycling
- Discussion forum: Sustainable communities
- Community of practice: Environmental sustainability and climate change
- Tackling climate change
- Better public spaces
- Sustainable Energy Benchmark and Toolkit
Equality and diversity
- What's new
- The Equality Framework for Local Government
- Data mapping – measuring equality at a local level
- The Equality Bill
- Equality impact assessments (EqIAs)
- Equality and diversity communities of practice (CoPs)
- Equality and diversity general guidance
- Equality Standard for Local Government
- Improvement Network: diversity
- The Equalities and Cohesion team
- Equality and diversity in the Beacon Scheme
- 'How Equality Shapes Place' – SOLACE publication (PDF, 36 pages, 1 MB)
Ethical governance
Improvement policy
Including people with learning disabilities
Local area agreements and local strategic partnerships
- Introduction and guidance
- Latest partnerships news, documents and events
- Partnerships and partnership working
- LAAs 2008 (including 2009 refresh)
- Multi-area agreements (MAAs)
- Supporting LAA outcomes
- National innovation and learning
- Comprehensive area assessment (CAA)
- Contact details
- Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreements
- Transforming the delivery of services through partnerships
Local Wellbeing Project
Managerial development
Migration programme: sharing good practice
Performance management
- Performance management resource pack
- What is performance management?
- Getting performance management right
- The performance management system
- People and performance
- Performance management in partnership
- The performance management improvement journey
- PMMI publication library
- PMMI project
- About the performance management resource
Preventing violent extremism
- Keeping up to date with the prevent agenda
- Background to PVE
- Frequently asked questions about preventing violent extremism
- Support for councils and practitioners
- Working with schools and young people
- Case studies
- Resources and links
- Priority local authorities receiving pathfinder funding by Government Office region
Recession support for councils
- What's new
- FAQs
- Policy and lobbying
- Research and surveys
- Guidance
- Good practice and case studies
- Events
- Video clips
- Community of practice
- firstonline LGA magazine
- Future Jobs Fund – bidding documents published
- Webcast of Future Jobs Fund event on 7 May
- Leadership Centre publications on party responses to the recession
- The Planning Advisory Service - new Leadership Academy: your place in the economic recovery
- The growth of claimant unemployment by broad occupation and area
- ‘Building blocks’ – discussion paper on affordable housing
- ‘Managing money, helping people with debt’
Setting the Pace: Developing a framework for sector-led help. Consultation paper
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- Summary of consultation questions
- The consultation
- Illustrative examples
- Consultation timeline/implementation
- Appendix 1: Critical success factors for local government’s framework
- Appendix 2: Case studies
- Appendix 3: List of attendees at the local government led improvement event
Shared services and collaboration
Strategic housing
- Local Housing Knowledge
- What's new?
- LGA Group Housing support programme
- Good practice guides
- Articles and publications
- Improving housing services beacon
- Background
- Promoting sustainable communities through the planning process beacons
- Community Cohesion and Housing: a good practice guide
- Planning Advisory Service
- Strategic housing CoP
Voluntary and community sector
- Latest news
- What is the voluntary and community sector?
- National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning
- Reviewing the funding relationship with the third sector
- Social enterprise and local government
- Social capital
- Service delivery
- The implications of the local government white paper
- Voluntary and community sector: case studies
- Programmes, resources and useful websites
- Increasing voluntary and community sector service delivery
Workforce resources and good practice
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