This session will explore how the local governments of the future will use missions to galvanise partners to build local economies that both reflect the strengths of communities and support them to thrive. What becomes possible when partners work across boundaries and build the shared purpose and power needed to shape local economies to better serve their place? 

Lots of people are talking about neighbourhoods as a vehicle for organising public services – but fewer are asking how we use this shift to strengthen relationships in and with communities.

This session will look at how we can ensure the conversation about neighbourhood working goes beyond service design and delivery. How do we ensure that hyper-local working supports the relationships that enable the housing, work, transport, civic spaces and local economies needed for communities to thrive?

Place-based budgeting is back on the agenda but greater financial flexibilities are part of the wider shifts required to build the public sector of the future: one that is more joined up and collaborative and can deliver better outcomes for communities.

This session will explore how place-based budgets can help galvanise wider public service reform in places and show us what is possible if partners work together, united by shared purpose and liberated by the possibilities of shared returns.  How can local leaders and partners strengthen relationships and build trust? What do key actors in the system need from each other? What does it take to collaborate well? And how can place-based budgets help us build relational public services and community power?

For local government, and the systems they sit within, learning is not a “nice to have” – it’s mission critical in how we address our biggest challenges while making the most of public resources. What do we need to do to design learning in to organisations and partnerships and – critically – how are voices of communities and citizens centred in that learning? In this session we explore the different ways learning can be located and embedded in an organisations design by looking at different approaches taken in the public sector and beyond (including Test, Learn and Grow). 

When a place-based initiative is established and embedded, what are the conditions that help sustain and support ongoing success? This workshop – facilitated by the Peabody Community Foundation and Renaisi – will use the concept of tending to a garden to help participants explore how to maintain momentum and sustain place-based work.

During this workshop, participants will work together to explore answers to the following:

• Weathering autumn and winter: once a place-based initiative is well established, what are the challenges to sustaining the work
• Tending to the garden: what are the conditions that sustain place-based change? How might these be different for different kinds of place-based change?

In this interactive session, we will explore how heritage and personal stories can strengthen inter‑generational bonds and reveal shared priorities within a community, highlighting the London Borough of Havering’s Bonds Through History project, in collaboration with 3ni, Eastside Community Heritage, and Thames Freeport.

This will be of interest to attendees looking to explore innovative and effective ways to engage with residents at the hyper-local level, identifying neighbourhood strengths and priorities, and collaborating on new funding opportunities.

Voters go the polls in more than 100 local authorities at a time when the political landscape in England seems more fractured than ever, and the results could bring a wider spectrum of politicians than ever into local power. As the dust settles on an unpredictable set of elections, join the Local Government Chronicle for a live podcast examining what the results mean for the future of public services.

Can social care commissioning centre the outcomes that matter to people whilst also building community wealth?

We know that the care system is not working for our people or our places. Large extractive providers are costing us more, delivering less and often do not reflect the needs of our communities. This session will explore the potential ways that commissioning care can help us bring people closer to both shaping and owning the way that care is delivered.

Drawing on learnings from the Waves tech-powered democracy pilots, this session will explore how councils are experimenting with new tech-powered democratic practices to enable mass participation and deep deliberation and build trust with residents.

Together we’ll explore the potential for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) beyond structures, and examine how councils, residents and partners can shape reorganisation as a catalyst for better outcomes and stronger collaboration across their place.

In Barking & Dagenham, Care City and partners are developing a neighbourhood health model shaped by local people and everyday realities. We’ll share what’s working, what we’re learning and improving, and practical steps you can try straight away in your own community. Shared ambition is easy. Making it real is the hard part. Come and see if they can help.

This session will explore how the local governments of the future will use missions to galvanise partners to build local economies that both reflect the strengths of communities and support them to thrive. What becomes possible when partners work across boundaries and build the shared purpose and power needed to shape local economies to better serve their place? 

Lots of people are talking about neighbourhoods as a vehicle for organising public services – but fewer are asking how we use this shift to strengthen relationships in and with communities.

This session will look at how we can ensure the conversation about neighbourhood working goes beyond service design and delivery. How do we ensure that hyper-local working supports the relationships that enable the housing, work, transport, civic spaces and local economies needed for communities to thrive?

Place-based budgeting is back on the agenda but greater financial flexibilities are part of the wider shifts required to build the public sector of the future: one that is more joined up and collaborative and can deliver better outcomes for communities.

This session will explore how place-based budgets can help galvanise wider public service reform in places and show us what is possible if partners work together, united by shared purpose and liberated by the possibilities of shared returns.  How can local leaders and partners strengthen relationships and build trust? What do key actors in the system need from each other? What does it take to collaborate well? And how can place-based budgets help us build relational public services and community power?

For local government, and the systems they sit within, learning is not a “nice to have” – it’s mission critical in how we address our biggest challenges while making the most of public resources. What do we need to do to design learning in to organisations and partnerships and – critically – how are voices of communities and citizens centred in that learning? In this session we explore the different ways learning can be located and embedded in an organisations design by looking at different approaches taken in the public sector and beyond (including Test, Learn and Grow).