WE STRENGTHEN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

We are delighted to announce our Impact Report for 2020-21. The report is fully interactive and includes a series of videos that further bring to life the work of our specialists.

It covers the diverse range of initiatives on which Local Partnerships has worked. The golden thread throughout is the broad scope of projects where we’re helping councils develop their responses to the climate emergency including waste and the circular economy, housing and regeneration, air quality, infrastructure, domestic retrofit, energy, and more.

Read our impact report 2020-21 here.

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Recently many councils have seen the need to review their wholly or partly owned companies in order to provide assurance that the governance structures and processes for managing risk are sufficiently robust and that their companies are meeting their expectations, delivering real benefits, and providing value for money.

We are therefore pleased to have produced this guidance and toolkit to help councils review their existing companies. The guidance also sets out the questions and challenges that we believe are relevant to the decision-making processes for establishing new wholly or partly owned council companies.

ABOUT US

Local Partnerships is a joint venture between the Local Government Association, HM Treasury and the Welsh Government.

We occupy a unique position in the public sector. We facilitate change by working impartially and collaboratively across all parts of central, local and regional government, and the devolved administrations.

Local Partnerships is proud to be part of the public sector family. We bring public and private sector experience that provides confidence, capability and capacity, helping councils and combined authorities achieve and maintain financial resilience.

We work solely for the benefit of the public sector. Our experts provide trusted, professional support and advice over multiple disciplines, helping you make best use of limited re-sources as demand for services continues to rise. These include:

HOUSING

INFRASTRUCTURE

CLIMATE
RESPONSE

COMMERCIALISATION AND REORGANISATION

ENERGY

RE:FIT

ASSURANCE

HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE

PPP, PFI
AND MIM

WASTE

To find out more how we can support you – contact us

Latest news

Scope 3 emissions reporting for social care provision

Decarbonisation of the public sector estate

Adaptation to climate change

Seeing the wood for the trees

Green Projects and the use of PWLB

Local Partnerships’ expert advice has helped us resolve a range of PFI contract issues. They identified savings within our projects and have supported us in their implementation. Their commercial expertise is helping us get the most from refinancing our BSF projects and is delivering significant savings. These are valuable resources in the current financial climate that the Council is able to reinvest into its front line council services.

Ian Rooth, Head of Finance Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Local Partnerships’ work at Wirral has harnessed local knowledge and created a much sharper, focused approach, which is commercially aware and which will result in more homes delivered over the next five years

Eric Robinson Chief Executive, Wirral Council

Local Partnerships provided excellent support to the Heart of the South West LEP. They understood the issues that we are having to deal with and worked with our partners to help align their spatial priorities with the area’s economic plans.

Heart of South West LEP Chris Garcia, Chief Executive

Getting the procurement of a supplier for energy performance contracting right, is really important. Local Partnerships gave us the confidence to take the next step by guiding us through the Re:fit procurement process, offering professional support and advice and asking challenging questions about issues we hadn’t even thought about. Without their support, the procurement process could have been a lot more stressful and we may not have achieved the goals we set for ourselves.

Cambridgeshire County Council Sheryl French, Project Director, Mobilising Local Energy Investment

Some of the key benefits to DECC of using the Re:fit programme have been a significantly streamlined (OJEU compliant) procurement process, which meant the energy efficiency measures could be installed more quickly; support in drafting and assessing tenders; expert project management advice; independent assurance that the projected savings were realistic and guaranteed energy savings.

Department of Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Local Partnerships played a pivotal role in ensuring that the bidders’ proposals would be acceptable to the Welsh Government (and therefore eligible for financial support). The project also benefitted tremendously from its experience in fostering public-private relationships and its commercial expertise. Local Partnerships was extremely helpful in providing document templates and guidance.

Central Wales Waste Partnership Beverley Hodgett

The Waste Infrastructure Procurement Programme team is leading the way for strategic joint working across the public service in Wales. This innovative and exciting work can provide a blueprint for the future, not just for waste management, but in other areas as well. Ministers and other public service partners are increasingly referring to this programme’s approach as the way forward for joint working in Wales.

Welsh Government Derek Jones, Permanent Secretary

The relationship with Local Partnerships gives me invaluable access to capacity and skills for procurement, programme management and projects and is flexible and responsive to my needs.

Welsh Government Jasper Roberts, Deputy Director, Waste and Resource Efficiency Division

I have found Local Partnerships supportive and knowledegable, particularly on the technical and financial aspects of our street lighting PFI – enabling us to make informed decisions and ensuring that we haven’t wasted effort in these areas on what is a challenging and complex contract change.

Manchester City Council Peter Woodward, Capital Programmes and Property

Local Partnerships provided excellent support to the Heart of the West LEP. They understood the issues that we are having to deal with and worked with our partners to help align their spatial priorities with the area’s economic plans.

Heart of the South West LEP Chris Garcia, Chief Executive

Local Partnerships has been excellent to work with- their knowledge, experience and insights in the Growth area have added enormous value to Councils in the West Midlands.

Coventry City Council Martin Reeves, Chief Executive

We are working with Local Partnerships to explore the opportunities for private rented sector housing in Lewisham. Local Partnerships bring an excellent understanding of the challenges that local authorities are facing with a depth of commercial experience and understanding of the housing market.

Lewisham Borough Council Janet Senior, Executive Director, Finance and Regeneration

Local Partnerships insight and knowledge on the PFI market has directly influenced how we’ve progressed with our PFI savings negotiations – in particular their understanding of the funding market has helped us minimise the risk of incurring potential costs by pursuing proposals that were likely to be considered unacceptable.

North Tyneside Council Andrew Gate, Commerical Services Team

The Local Partnerships team has exceeded the original brief in providing very professional and effective support and advice in the review of two individual PFI contract provisions. The review team provided a comprehensive assessment that has the potential to offer further budgetary savings opportunities.

Norfolk Constabluary Jonathan Henry, Norfolk Constabluary

Local Partnerships has more than met the requirements set for them. Although the reason for the engagement was to identify savings they have also done some really good work on improving the governance of the contract and better supporting our contract manager.

Gloucestershire Police Peter Skelton, Gloucestershire Police

The observations and recommendations will leave a legacy of learning and improvement far beyond the project.

Humberside Police Ian Watson, Assistant Chief Officer

The setup and three days onsite work were challenging. We have now decided to continue the Gateway Reviews throughout the whole life cycle of this programme.

Lincolnshire County Council David O’Connor, Assistant Chief Executive

I found your style of review both challenging and supportive, and very much focused on enabling us to improve, rather than telling us where we’re not. Such a style is very welcome and not always in evidence in such processes.

Bradford Council Jill Campbell, Project Manager

The relationship with Local Partnerships gives me invaluable access to capacity and skills for procurement, programme management and projects and is flexible and responsive to my needs.

Welsh Government Jasper Roberts, Deputy Director, Waste and Resource Efficiency

The benefits substantially outweigh the cost. We will be looking to carry out further work with Local Partnerships as we push forward with our Reshaping Trafford Programme.

Reshaping Trafford Programme Sarah Maynard, Programme Manager

Local Partnerships has been excellent to work with – their knowledge, experience and insights in the growth area have added enormous value to councils in the West Midlands.

Coventry City Council Martin Reeves, Chief Executive

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Project Director Tony Lawson explores the strengths of our Re:fit programme. Read our full impact report for 2020/21 here 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnp5hK

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Project Director Tony Lawson explores the strengths of our Re:fit programme. Read our full impact report for 2020/21 here 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnGG9i

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Looking forward to working with @NHSEngland tomorrow to brief Trusts and Foundation Trusts on how to deliver energy efficiency and decarbonisation improvements across their estate using the Re:fit Framework. 👏

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Listen to Programme Director Jenny Coombs talk about the impact of the pandemic on health and social Care and read our full impact report for 2020/21 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnGG9i

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"Carbon literacy training has helped many local authorities raise awareness and develop a common language, enabling a much faster pace of change." - Strategic Director Jo Wall for the LGC https://t.co/y52KzETc3w

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We have produced guidance and a toolkit to help councils review their existing companies and establish new wholly or partly owned council companies. Read the guidance on our website 👉 https://t.co/7eBBXCCkFO

Yesterday

Listen to Programme Director Jenny Coombs talk about the impact of the pandemic on health and social Care and read our full impact report for 2020/21 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnp5hK

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Watch Strategic Director Simon Bandy talk about our work on Project Gigabit and read our full impact report for 2020/21 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnGG9i

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We are looking forward to working with @NHSEngland this week to brief Trusts and Foundation Trusts on how to deliver energy efficiency and decarbonisation improvements across their estate using the Re:fit Framework. 👏

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Watch Strategic Director Simon Bandy talk about our work on Project Gigabit. Read our full Impact Report for 2020/21 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnGG9i

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Project Director Georgia Lewis explains how we supported resilient PFI contracts for local authorities to continue service as usual during the pandemic. Read more in our impact report 👉 https://t.co/xvT3enPbgS

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Listen to Project Director Niranjan Patel talk about this milestone year for @DefraGovUK and the Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) Read more in our new impact report 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnp5hK

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RT @Localis The 'New Ethos' discussion on value led procurement is now available on the Localis Youtube channel for viewing. #procurementvalues Link here: https://t.co/nJKfzYOxa1 - thank you to @mearsgroup and @socialvalueuk

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RT @psenews Derek Rooney, Waste Programme Director, Local Partnerships "Even working in waste management, I sometimes find it confusing what to put in my recycling bin" @LP_localgov #PSE365 #wastestrategies

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RT @psenews Such stimulating discussion on our Water Management panel, but don’t miss out the Waste Strategies panel is starting now: Derek Rooney, @LP_localgov Trevor Nicholl, @sthelenscouncil Dr Adam Read, @CIWM Claire Preston, @NWLeics Haven’t registered yet?https://t.co/x42weI6Aso

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“We want to produce something freely available to councils, so they might not necessarily need to engage expensive consultants to undertake reviews of their companies in the future." - David Crowe, Strategic Director and main author of our new guidance https://t.co/GApsfNOKYJ

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Hear from Project Director Sarah-Joy Lewis about our work supporting local authorities respond to the climate emergency. You can read our full impact report for 2020-21 here 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnp5hK

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RT @supc_uk Register for the Re:fit framework webinar where @LP_localgov will present the #framework, the overall concept, the preparatory phase and what a good Re:fit #project looks like. Book your place here: https://t.co/mjaLNia44p

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Have you read our brand new impact report yet? Listen to our Chief Executive @LP_SeanHanson give an overview of the year at Local Partnerships and read the full report here 👉 https://t.co/ddDYZnp5hK

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We are delighted to announce the publication of our Impact Report for 2020-21. In our most interactive report ever, we take you through the successes we have achieved for our clients in the past year. Read now on our website: https://t.co/xvT3enPbgS

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We are holding a webinar with @natfednews for NHF members on the Re:fit Framework and how it can deliver energy efficiency in the social housing sector on Thursday 9 September, 12pm-1pm. NHF members register here 👉 https://t.co/oXoVytDwoX

About 2 weeks ago

We are holding a webinar with @natfednews for NHF members to provide information on the Re:fit Framework and how it can deliver energy efficiency in the social housing sector on Thursday 9 September, 12pm-1pm. Register here 👉 https://t.co/oXoVytDwoX

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RT @socialvalueuk Just one week to get signed up! ⏰ On Sept 9th, join our open debate on values led procurement reform & what this could mean for public service delivery! @socialvalueuk @Localis @LP_SeanHanson @jacquimck @LottaOsterman @jb_pritchard Register here: https://t.co/9mEJjSa7p8