The Annual Local Government Conference 2025
Policy, People & Place
Manchester 22 October 2025, 9:00am - 4:00pm
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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
10:10am
Panel Discussion: 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
10:40am
Headline Sponsor
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
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
11:50am
Panel Discussion: Making Devolution Work for People and Place
- Lessons from effective combined authority and district collaboration
- Harnessing local autonomy to deliver tailored public services
- Innovation and adaptability within devolved governance frameworks
12:20pm
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
12:40pm
Lunch and Networking
1:40pm
Chair's Welcome Back Address
1:50pm
Panel Discussion: Cross-Sector Collaboration in Action
- Working with ICSs, schools, police and housing associations
- Local leadership in multi-agency partnerships
- Examples from whole-place approaches
Jonathan Werran, Chief Executive, Localis
Paul Boyce, Director of Children’s Services, Lancashire County Council
2:20pm
Workforce, Wellbeing and the Role of Culture in Public Service
- Supporting staff through transformation and uncertainty
- Embedding values-driven, inclusive workplace cultures
- Building resilience and wellbeing into workforce strategies
- 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
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3:50pm
Chair's Closing Summary
4:00pm
Close
*programme subject to change without notice