LGR
Local Government Reorganisation
Tools, Templates & Learning Hub
Helping councils navigate LGR with confidence
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) demands hundreds of decisions that shape the future of your new authority. Most councils undertaking it are already stretched, and reorganisation adds new levels of pressure. If you’re looking for support, you’re already feeling the weight of change. We can help you deliver a well-informed transition.
Our role
We act as both strategic adviser and delivery partner, often operating as an embedded resource within local authorities to deliver alongside teams.
Our LGR toolkits
Local Partnerships has produced a number of free toolkits, designed to help councils navigate LGR and implement best practice.
Our LGR webinars
View our upcoming LGR webinars or catch up on any you may have missed. Our expert-led webinars deliver key insights, shared learning and practical support for Local Government Reorganisation.
Our LGR articles
Read our collection of LGR articles, where our experts share knowledge, tips and best practices for local authorities navigating LGR and Devolution.
Our Role
Helping councils navigate with confidence
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is complex, high-stakes and resource-intensive. It requires strong leadership, sound programme design, and careful risk management. This all has to be done whilst maintaining continuity of public services and political accountability. Local Partnerships is uniquely placed to support local authorities through this journey.
Our approach
We act as both strategic adviser and delivery partner, often operating as an embedded resource within local authorities to deliver alongside teams. We work alongside government departments, local programme teams and key stakeholders, offering insight, capacity and critical friend support throughout the LGR process.
We structure our offer to cover every stage of the LGR process:
- Pre decision: Support to undertake solution agnostic data collection, planning and analysis to ensure that authorities are in the best position to move forward rapidly once the future model for their area is known. This includes a wide range of data collection templates, available for free from our website.
- Post decision: Continuing to support authorities with PMO, data analysis and consideration of contracts, commercial arrangements and asset managements, while beginning to think about service specific transformation. This includes our LGR Waste toolkit available on our website.
- Shadow authority: Supporting the development of new strategies, providing critical friend and assurance support, and helping authorities to set-up benefits realisation plans to ensure they deliver the benefit of reorganisation to their communities.
- Post vesting transformation: Supporting delivery model alignment, service design and transformation, and benefits realisation.
Our Toolkits
Local Partnerships has produced a number of free resources including toolkits that can help councils navigate LGR and implement best practice.
Featured: Data sharing toolkit
Local Partnerships’ Data & Analytics team has developed an LGR data-sharing toolkit to support consistent data collection. This supports councils with:
- Creating an evidence-based baseline
- Early risk identification
- Reduced duplication
Navigating Waste and Resource Services through LGR Waste Toolkit
This toolkit provides both strategic and operational guidance, offering clear frameworks, checklists, and practical tools to help authorities manage change confidently and effectively.
LGR Toolkit
In collaboration with the LGA, our Local Partnerships LGR experts have created a comprehensive guide for councils navigating local government reorganisation and devolution.
LGR planning the transfer of assets and liabilities
A practical early-stage guide for local authorities in LGR, highlighting key considerations around asset and liability transfer and the importance of early information sharing to reduce legacy risk.
Our Webinars
Webinars delivering expert insight, shared learning and practical support for Local Government Reorganisation.
Upcoming
Our upcoming webinars centring on LGR. For our other webinars, see our Events page
Explore the LGR Toolkit
This collaborative session between Local Partnerships and the LGA will provide a walkthrough of the upcoming LGR toolkit and how to apply it in your council’s specific context.
4 March 2026
Watch on demand
Missed the live webinar? All of our LGR webinars are available for FREE on our Resource Hub
The lessons you only learn once
This peer-to-peer discussion will cover lessons learned, what worked well, and what they would do differently.
Why collaboration on data matters now
How councils can take “no regrets” data actions during LGR, with frontline insight from Pedro Wrobel.
Getting the right data, the right way
This free, practical session shows how to create a shared view of data across councils, even before decisions are announced.
Navigating Waste and Resource Services through LGR Waste Toolkit
LGR is reshaping waste and resource services. This webinar offers practical guidance to help authorities manage the transition.
LGR from submission to decision: a practical guide
Practical guidance for councils navigating LGR, focusing on the submission-to-decision period and PMO setup.
Data session “How to Guide”
Data gathering from a PMO perspective, common challenges that had emerged across councils and ways of building a shared data picture.
Our Articles
Read our collection of LGR articles, where our experts share knowledge, tips and best practices for local authorities navigating LGR and Devolution.
LGR: Culture eats strategy for breakfast
LGR success depends on strong culture, leadership and engagement — not strategy alone.
LGR: A wake up call for civil servants
LGR is a wake-up call for civil servants to provide clear roles, coordination and shared governance so devolution delivers real public value.
