Kevin Bentley

Jun 12, 2024 | lgafirst.co.uk | Kevin Bentley

The LGA’s Local Government White Paper sets out how to deliver more and better for residentsLocal government is the key to solving many of our biggest national challenges. We work at the front line of people’s daily lives. We shape places, provide vital services that hold our communities together, keep people safe, and create the conditions for prosperity and wellbeing. Yet there has never been a more difficult time for local government.

Jun 7, 2024 | lgcplus.com | Kevin Bentley

A new partnership model should be backed by statute and based on international best practice, writes the senior vice chairman of the Local Government Association. Some of the country’s biggest challenges have already been widely debated in the countdown to 4 July, including on health, education, immigration, defence, national security and tax.

Feb 29, 2024 | lgafirst.co.uk | Kevin Bentley

Councils continue to support Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasionJust over two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, councils across the UK continue to play a pivotal role in supporting over 200,000 Ukrainian people to rebuild their lives here. Local government has always been at the forefront of responding at pace and scale to international challenges.

Dec 8, 2023 | lgafirst.co.uk | Darren Rodwell |Freya Roberts |David Renard |Kevin Bentley

Empowering councils to act locally would halve the cost of delivering net zero nationally. Just 5 per cent of the British public feel prepared for climate change, according to an LGA poll.

Mar 28, 2023 | lgafirst.co.uk | Kevin Bentley |Marvin W. Rees

Levelling up requires a reinvention of the relationship between national, local and community governanceThe Government’s Levelling Up White Paper was published in February 2022 and set out an ambitious programme to reduce inequality and close the gaps in productivity, health, income and opportunity within the United Kingdom. Councils have a material interest in the outcome of this agenda.