• Responding to political shifts
• Upholding public trust and stability
• Delivering local impact regardless of national direction
• Questions and answers

• Place-based approaches to health, education, and housing
• Listening to communities and acting on lived experience
• Early intervention and prevention

• Navigating funding reform and rethinking local taxation
• Growing local income through investment and innovation
• Planning for resilience amid national fiscal constraints
• Questions and answers

• Understand how emerging threats impact councils
• Embed resilience into procurement, service delivery, and digital transformation
• Understand how local government can work with regulators and national cyber bodies
• Questions and answers

• Lessons from effective combined authority and City and district collaboration
• Harnessing local autonomy to deliver tailored public services
• Innovation and adaptability within devolved governance frameworks

Pam Smith, Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council

Ben Still, Chief Executive Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Building strategic climate partnerships across rural and urban areas
• Aligning funding, planning, and community engagement
• Embedding climate responsibility into local governance
• Questions and answers

• Questions and answers

• Discuss how councils can lead effective partnerships to deliver shared goals for people and place
• Listen to real-world lessons from place-based partnerships delivering outcomes for communities
• Questions and answers

Jonathan Werran, Chief Executive, Localis

Paul Boyce, Commissioner for the Department of Education

Colin Brew, Head of Strategic Partnership, Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub

• Understand how the central Government works with local areas
• Discuss lessons in collaborative working across departments, regions, and sectors
• Questions and answers

• Policy priorities and place leadership over the next five years
• Strengthening local voices and shaping national policy
• What councils need from central government to deliver

Cllr. Max Mosley, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation and Councillor for Brentford East

Senior Representative,  Local Government Information Unit

*programme subject to change without notice