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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🍾This July at the LGA conference in Liverpool we are hosting a drinks reception and fireside chat from 18:00 until 19:00 at the Hilton City Centre. Hear from Mayor of Liverpool @metromayorsteve.bsky.social and Birmingham City Councils Joanne Roney Sign up to attend: forms.office.com/e/iN8v2zfTak

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The report calls for: 🏛️Reclassifying social housing as national infrastructure 🌱Strategic alignment through Local Growth Plans 💰Enhanced guidance and support for LGPS investment 📈Optimizing the LGPS pooling process 🏠Central oversight by Homes England

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The report highlights the government's ongoing reforms to the LGPS, including the push for "megafund" pools, to enhance investment in UK growth-related assets, and also notes the substantial aggregate surplus currently held by LGPS funds in England and Wales.⬇️

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🌞Today we are releasing a new report that argues council pension assets should be funding solution to UK’s affordable housing crisis 🏘️ In 'New Stable' we make an evidenced case that institutional investment in affordable housing would boost social prosperity. ⬇️

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Prof. Samer Bagaeen @samerb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Last teaching day this term on the MA Urban Planning & Resilience covering rural planning with Trevor Cherrett, local government finances with Joe Fyans from Localis, and Monica Altamirano direct from Delft on water resilience 🙌🏽

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yesterday we launched our new report 'Generating Hope' with E.ON UK at in-depth roundtable discussion. We talked all things net zero and local government. Thank you to everyone who came! #ukpolitics #netzero

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Setting up our E.ON UK launch roundtable for our new report Generating Hope 🚀 How can local councils help us reach net zero? #localgov #netzero #renewableenergy #ukpolitics

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

3️⃣ Private Sector Should - Practice meaningful community consultation over the direction of projects and funding. - Prioritise local job creation - Work with a local supply chain to ensure the retention of economic benefits. You can read the whole report here: localis.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

2️⃣ Local Government Should - Provide robust data and measurement mechanisms - Target quantifiable benefits to local communities. - Develop financial instruments such as Community Municipal Investments and Green Bonds - Embed Green Public Procurement in their procurement of energy services

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

1️⃣ Central Government Should - Provide local authorities with support in procurement and contracting - Provide capacity support for planning applications - Produce a contracting framework for local authorities looking to procure long-term public-private partnerships.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Enabling the Local Power Plan 💡 - Formalise local area energy planning - Consolidate funding streams for clean energy projects in local areas - Build community capacity - Establish regional energy data centres - Streamline the application process for grid connection - Invest in skills programmes

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

With detail on the Local Power Plan as yet unclear, this report looks at how the plan can best build on best practice and overcome local barriers to drive decarbonisation

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

☀️ Today we are launching our first report of 2025 'Generating Hope'. ☀️ The current government has made very well known it ambition to achieve net zero by 2050. The Local Power Plan, aims to support local and combined authorities, as well as community energy groups. #localgov #netzero

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today we are at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Beer 🍺to talk about our report on pubs released with the @bbpa.bsky.social last year. You can read all about the report and the importance of pubs to local communities here: www.localis.org.uk/research/inn...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Today we helped Norse Group record the beginning of a new podcast series on housing coming out later this year with special guests Samer Bagaeen and Darren Rodwell. #localgov

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Earlier today our Head of Research Joe Fyans went in front of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. Here is some of what he had to say⬇️⬇️⬇️ #localgov #mhclg

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Existing local government staffing and resourcing could struggle to deliver on the missions at the heart of the new vision for English devolution. Is there a gorilla in our midst? themj.co.uk/gorilla-midst from the Municipal Journal @jonathan-werran.bsky.social

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Is there a gorilla in our midst?

The excitement of drawing boundary lines in maps of our country to fit devolutionary whims is seemingly as irresistible to armchair commentators as it is to the...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

🌊today's Environment Agency report on flood risk shows 6.3 homes in England at risk of flooding - our recent "Plain Dealing Revisited" report asked how we can reduce number of homes built in high-risk flood areas 🏘️ - see 👉 localis.org.uk/research/pla... #climatechange #flooding

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Plain Dealing Revisited - Localis

In autumn 2021, Localis published ‘Plain Dealing – building for flood resilience’. The study took for its context the sense that development on flood risk areas sits at the intersection of the housing...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Fair Funding review has been in stasis for years. What impact would implementing it have on the funding of councils in England? #localgov #devolution #britishpolitics

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Last week in our webinar 💻 ahead of todays Local Government White Paper we asked Joanne Pitt from @cipfa.bsky.social what her views were on Local Government reorganisation. This is what she had to say⬇️ #localgov

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

You can read the full report here: www.localis.org.uk/wp-content/u... And watch the webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAaG...

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Webinar | Biting the Bullet Funding Local Government in this Parliament and Beyond

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Participants proposed improvements to grant funding, business rates, and fiscal devolution, emphasising the need for greater transparency and alignment between funding and service delivery. The discussion also touched upon the role of public engagement and potential local government reorganisation.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yesterday we hosted our final webinar of the year "Biting the Bullet". 🗝️Key issues include: insufficient funding for social care, education, and temporary accommodation, alongside outdated funding formulas and a lack of clarity regarding the government's long-term vision for local government.

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South East Employers @seemployers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Last night, Ruth and Kirsty joined colleagues from South East Councils and Localis to launch the Restoration and Resilience report. To read the report or find out more visit: www.localis.org.uk/research/res...

Dr Ruth Adams, Chief Executive of SEE giving a speech at the launch of the Restoration and Resilience Report in London.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Thanks to @seemployers.bsky.social and South East Councils for their help on this project which you can read in full here:

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

💵Diversifying revenue streams 🔨Investing in workforce development and capacity building ⬆️Promoting collaboration and partnership working 📈Reforming the funding system 💡Empowering local authorities through devolution. 4/5

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🧩Fragmented Governance: the region's fragmented political landscape hinders effective collaboration and strategic planning. To address these challenges, the report recommends a series of measures, including⬇️ 💪Strengthening financial governance and strategic leadership 3/5

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Key findings include⬇️ 💰Financial Strain: South East councils are facing significant financial pressures, with many resorting to minimum service provision. 🪙Capacity Crisis: a shortage of skilled staff and outdated workforce practices are hindering service delivery 2/5

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Today we are launching a new report entitled “Restoration and Resilience: building capacity and capability to deliver local services in the South East”📕‼️ Councils in the South East must gain powers over local public sector recruitment policies and to set more competitive pay. 1/5

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thanks to @grantthorntonuk.bsky.social for their support for this report. You can read the full thing here: www.localis.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Recommendations for central government include: -national body or set of local bodies to oversee the local audit system. -provide a framework for local government that establishes a clear definition of good governance.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This process would be achieved by: - formalising checks and balances; - giving statutory monitoring officers more support to perform their duties; - reviewing whistleblowing policies; and - strengthening internal audit functions to identify emerging financial threats.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Our report calls for a shift towards long-term financial planning in line with multi-year settlements anticipated in next spring’s Comprehensive Review, and for local authorities to create organisational cultures that embrace challenge and criticism and hold leaders accountable.

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Since the 2010 abolition of the regulator, the Audit Commission, councils have faced massive challenges. These are explored in depth within our new report entitled “Present Tense: renewing and reforming local financial governance towards long-term resilience and sustainability”

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In two week's time we are hosting a webinar on Local Government Finance 💰 from 11-12. In the wake of the budget we wanted to explore the impact on Local Government with a panel of experts. Sign up if you want to be involved: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/05a1cf...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

- highlight the need for ensuring financial resilience and capacity resourcing across the South East for public service reform as well as national government growth - disrupt and challenge existing assumptions about the relative affluence and strength of the South East’s political economy

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

- stress the importance of local recruitment, retention and innovative management of public service employees - identify the primary obstacles to local authorities fulfilling their core obligations to communities and points to best practice in overcoming them

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our new report, ‘Restoration and resilience| creating capacity and capability to deliver local services in the South East’ seeks to: - ask questions about where the local government workforce of the future will come from, how they will be trained and how they will be retained

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Next week we are lunching our report into the finanical resilience of the South East. Beneath its reputation as a prosperous and “overheated” economic hub lie stark inequalities and financial pressures that are increasingly testing the resilience of local governance.

Banner reading Restoration and Resilience: Building Capacity and Capability to Deliver Local Services in the South East

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

On the 11/12/24 at 11 we are hosting a webinar based on local finance. Our panel includes: 📢David Simmonds MP, Shadow Local Gov Minister 📢Mark Sandford @marksandford.bsky.social 📢Joanne Pitt, CIPFA 📢Cllr Ruth Bennett @ruthbennett.bsky.social Register via this link:

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

4. Either revaluing council tax valuation levels for the first time since 1991 or adding extra council tax bands and removing the single-person discount. We stress the need for a comprehensive overhaul of local government finance. Read our full report here: www.localis.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

1. updating the central government grant allocation formula 📊 2. devolution of revenue-raising powers in areas such as ‘tourist taxes’ or environmental levies🌲 3. reform of business rates to make it a charge beyond ‘bricks and mortar’ and consider alternatives like a local corporation tax👇

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🥇The rising cost of providing SEND education on councils 🥈The increase in the use of temporary accommodation 🥉The impact of our aging nation on social care We then outline several potential reforms to the funding of councils👇

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Localis @localis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today we are launching our new independent report 'Biting the Bullet: Funding Local Government in this Parliament and Beyond' 🚀. #localgov In this report we explore the three main pressures on council budgets👇

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Kirsty Weakley @kirstyweakley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tonight's LGC Briefing comes from Jonathan Werran of @localis.bsky.social - it mentions Napoleon, Elon Musk, this app - and "existential dangers" for local government www.lgcplus.com/politics/lgc...

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That sinking feeling

An uncontrollably expanding failed super state is dangerous for local government and successful plac...

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