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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.

“Councils are critical in preparing people and places to the impacts of the changing climate. As leaders in communities, they deliver hundreds of essential services to protect public health, manage roads, prepare for floods, and provide open space. Nationally we are not sufficiently prepared for the impacts of climate change, and central government must prioritise its work with local government to close this gap. This research report explores local authorities’ preparedness for climate adaptation”

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.

A new toolkit for local authority funding bid preparation in advance of the next round of the Levelling Up Fund has been launched. It will help councils improve the quality of their Levelling Up Fund bids and select projects that are most likely to succeed in attracting an award.

This document provides practical guidance to contracting authorities on managing PFI contract expiry and service transition.

‘Preparing for PFI contract expiry’ provides practical guidance to contracting authorities on managing the expiry of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts and the transition to future services provision. This guidance is aimed at PFI contracting authorities, including Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) and PFI contract management teams and applies to PFI contracts in England across all sectors. It does not seek to be prescriptive, as the activities required to exit from a PFI contract vary considerably based on the nature of the assets and services provided, the form of contract and the future requirements of the authority. Instead, it offers a framework for approaching PFI contract expiry and transition, based on practical experience.