Audience: UK Central Government

Our Impact Report 2024-25 is here

We are proud to share our Impact Report 2024-25 – a reflection of another remarkable year at Local Partnerships. This report captures the breadth and depth of our work, and the tangible difference we’ve made across England and Wales.

As a publicly owned, in-house delivery partner, our role has never been more vital. Against a backdrop of financial constraint, climate urgency, and systemic reform, we’ve continued to bring clarity, capability, and confidence to the public sector. Our teams have delivered measurable impact – whether by supporting climate resilience, helping councils transform, unlocking infrastructure opportunities, or enabling local leaders to improve lives in their communities.

This year’s report illustrates how deeply embedded we are in the real-world challenges our partners face – and how we consistently help them rise to meet them. It also celebrates the growing strength of our partnerships across central government, the LGA, the devolved administrations, and local authorities.

We invite you to explore how we’ve made a difference – and how we’re helping shape a better future, together.

A new report, Empowering local climate action: Advice to government, published by the LGA and developed by Local Partnerships sets out advice on how to build collaboration between the UK Government and councils to deliver on the shared ambition for responding to climate change.

Local Partnerships is excited to share with you this year’s Impact Report 2023 – 2024.

This year we have created this microsite within our website to help you navigate and read through the whole report. Please use the links below to download the PDF or access the microsite.

Our Sourcing Playbook Webinar was to share the learning from our DLUHC funded Hands-On Sourcing Support Programme, through which 16 councils were supported to put the sourcing playbook into practice.

We were joined by DLUHC and some of the participating councils to discuss how the Sourcing Playbook can best be used by local government and reflect on key lessons learned from the experience. There was plenty of opportunities for audience Q&A to ensure that practical advice could be taken away in the areas that matter to you.

In the years since its initial launch as the “Outsourcing Playbook”, the Sourcing Playbook has been iterated to ensure it reflects best practice and is as useful a guide as possible. While written primarily for a central government audience, the core best practice is relevant across the public sector. This webinar will help to bring to life the benefits of the Sourcing Playbook, and how best it can be relied on through hearing from peers about their experiences putting the playbook in to practice.

Welcome to a fun one hour journey into the ins and outs of KPI development.

We’re thrilled to present a series of captivating videos designed to guide you, step-by-step, in developing robust and meaningful KPIs (Key performance indicators) for local government procurement. This is the product of a collaboration among Local Partnerships, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the vibrant ed tech community.

Our mission is to make the complexities of KPI development accessible, practical and, above all, enjoyable. Whether you’re a procurement professional or a public service enthusiast, these videos offer an insightful perspective on enhancing the effectiveness of local government procurement operations.

Let’s dive into the world of procurement performance, together!

Olivia Labonté , Head of Local Government Commercial Capability 

We are thrilled to announce the launch the Impact Report 2022/2023. It celebrates the successes we’ve helped our clients achieve over the last year.

As a key interface between local and central government, we provide expert advice and practical resources alongside project and programme delivery support, enabling public services to thrive. As an in-house consultancy jointly owned by the LGA, HM Treasury and Welsh Government, we work solely for councils and combined authorities, central government departments, the Welsh Government and other public sector bodies such as the NHS.

LATCo guidance – Local authority company review guidance

The toolkit, Local authority company review guidance, is for undertaking strategic and governance reviews of wholly or partly owned council commercial entities – 2023 edition.

A tool to help councils ensure that they strike an appropriate balance between allowing a company the freedom to manage its activities and ensuring that it is accountable for its actions.

As part of our work with the Welsh Government Energy Service, we have helped to produce guidance for engaging with stakeholders when developing decarbonisation projects in the public sector.

Accelerating cost effective net zero delivery across the NHS

On Tuesday 13 June, Local Partnerships and the Greater London Authority hosted an online event focused on decarbonising the UK’s healthcare sector with increased pace and scale by using the public sector’s Re:fit framework.

The free webinar was an opportunity to hear peer success stories and future ambitions, as well as to learn what worked well and the challenges they faced.

Members of the team were also on hand to explain the benefits of using the Re:fit framework and how to access fully managed support.

This “Local government finance – capacity and capability” study has been commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) as part of the government funded Sector Led Improvement Programme.

It has been undertaken as part of the Government–funded sector improvement programme, reflecting some concerns and issues on capacity and capability in local government finance, that have followed recent high–profile cases of failure and financial mismanagement.

We worked with the LGA and Leeds and Cornwall councils during 2022 to understand what approaches have worked in homelessness prevention, how much they cost, costs that can have been avoided, and some of the benefits accrued by their implementation. From this, we produced homelessness prevention report and tool, containing some simple cost benefit models which are free to use on our website.

The report “Mapping a route to clean local growth – clearing the path to net zero” calls on central government to raise the floor of support to help councils deliver a decarbonised local economy and to remove the ceiling on their ambition. There are five action points for local leaders within the report.

We are delighted to announce our impact report 2021 – 2022. The report highlights and celebrates the successes we have helped our clients achieve in the last financial year.

The report covers tangible results of the five main areas of our work: climate response, circular economy and resource efficiency, infrastructure and assets, complex contracting and public sector capability and capacity.