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The Annual Local Government Conference 2025

Policy, People & Place

Salford Community Stadium, Greater Manchester 22 October 2025, 9:00am - 4:00pm

8:30am
Registration
9:50am
Opening Keynote: Leading Local Government in Times of National Uncertainty
  • Responding to political shifts
  • Upholding public trust and stability
  • Delivering local impact regardless of national direction
  • Questions and answers
Senior Representative from Greater Manchester Combined Authority
10:10am
Tackling Inequalities: Local Strategies that Make a Difference
  • Place-based approaches to health, education, and housing
  • Listening to communities and acting on lived experience
  • Early intervention and prevention
11:30am
The Future of Local Government Finance
  • Navigating funding reform and rethinking local taxation
  • Growing local income through investment and innovation
  • Planning for resilience amid national fiscal constraints
  • Questions and answers
Dr William Burns, Social Care Policy Advisor, CIPFA
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Cyber Resilience and Digital Infrastructure
  • 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
11:50am
Panel Discussion: Making Devolution Work for People and Place
  • 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

12:20pm
Leading Local Climate Action Across a County: Collaboration, Coordination and Impact
  • Building strategic climate partnerships across rural and urban areas
  • Aligning funding, planning, and community engagement
  • Embedding climate responsibility into local governance
  • Questions and answers
12:40pm
Lunch and Networking
1:40pm
Driving Digital and Data for Place-Based Transformation
  • Questions and answers
2:00pm
Panel Discussion: Cross-Sector Collaboration in Action
  • 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

2:30pm
Collaboration from Central Government
  • Understand how the central Government works with local areas
  • Discuss lessons in collaborative working across departments, regions, and sectors
  • Questions and answers
2:50pm
Break and Networking
3:20pm
Closing Panel Discussion: Where Next for Local Government?
  • 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

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3:50pm
Chair's Closing Summary
4:00pm
Close

*programme subject to change without notice

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