Welcome to the IG Central and Local Government Hub! Here you will find information on all of our upcoming events, including our national conferences, interactive CPD training courses, alongside helpful content pieces and free resources. We aim to provide support and development opportunities for all levels of central and local government functions.

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Upcoming Events

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Effective Social Prescribing
May 14
Effective Social Prescribing
Improving Building Safety
Jun 11
Improving Building Safety
Utilising Customer Insight to Improve Service Delivery
Jun 18
Utilising Customer Insight to Improve Service Delivery
Developing a Menopause Policy
Jun 20
Developing a Menopause Policy
Improving Sustainability in Housing
Jun 25
Improving Sustainability in Housing
Effective Governance and Leadership
Jul 2
Effective Governance and Leadership
Ensuring Public Sector Website Accessibility and Compliance
Jul 3
Ensuring Public Sector Website Accessibility and Compliance
Embedding Trauma Informed Practice Across the Public Sector
Jul 4
Embedding Trauma Informed Practice Across the Public Sector

Popular Blogs

Connecting People & Communities: Why Transport is a Critical Link in Tackling Loneliness

Tackling “seemingly conflicted priorities” on Public Infrastructure Development?

Detecting and Deterring Bid Rigging – What You Need to Know

Children are the future: Why a Child-Centred Approach must be at the Heart of Pandemic Recovery

Website Accessibility: What are the Requirements and Regulations?

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  • The Local Economic Growth Conference 2022 provided a range of speakers covering various initiatives all of which generated ideas and thoughts for future actions that i can take forward within my own authority. A really helpful two mornings.

    Economic Development Manager - North Kesteven District Council

  • Practical, detailed and engaging training by professionals with a reassuring depth of knowledge and expertise in their field.

    Marketing Communication Officer - Bath and North East Somerset Council

  • It was a gathering of intellectuals. The presentations were very detailed, practical, and insightful. Highly recommended to public health professionals

    Public Health Consultant & Medical Doctor - Birmingham City Council

  • This online event was very well organised with a fantastic range of topics and very experienced speakers. It has given me a lot of food for thought which I will be sharing across relevant services in Sutton.

    Commissioning Manager - Children in Care - London Borough Of Sutton Council

  • I became a captivated audience at this year's conference. Lots of information to take in and lots to think upon. I’ll definitely be back again.

    Tenancy Engagement Officer - Melton Borough Council

  • Interesting, excellent content, great to hear from other local authorities and what they are doing with regards to property licensing to address widespread management and disrepair issues in the PRS.

    Environmental Health Manager - London Borough of Islington

  • This training course exceeded my expectations and blew me away by how good it was. I've taken away lots of practical tools, and have learnt how to do the testing myself so I can now test the council's website.

    Webmaster Developer - North Devon District Council

  • This was an insightful, interesting event. I'm looking forward to going through all the new resources that were provided and sharing them with my team. Both trainers were very helpful and knowledgeable.

    Digital Communications Officer - Brighton & Hove City Council

  • This online conference was very informative and I will pass all information gathered here back to the team and make changes where needed which will enable us to deliver better services to all the young people in our community.

    Personal Advisor - Southend On Sea Borough Council

  • A great opportunity to hear about numerous networks and partnerships to provide digital skills to people who are lacking skills and have become excluded as a result.

    Employability and Skills Project Co-ordinator - East Sussex County Council

  • A great day dedicated to gaining a better understanding of loneliness, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fantastic speakers and case studies to inspire everyone.

    Wellbeing Advisor - Mid Sussex Wellbeing Team - West Sussex County Council

  • The training session was very well run, the content was clear, appropriate and insightful. The speakers were very knowledgeable and clearly experienced.

    Business Change Manager - Sheffield City Council

  • Predicting the future of infrastructure as vital as the country's Road Network could seem impossible. Being able to listen to some of the leading thinkers, innovators and policy-makers in this field makes the impossible feel that little bit more possible, and the future a little less opaque.

    PCS Union Chair - Highways England

  • A very engaging event with a variety of very good speakers which certainly helped me in my understanding of the latest data, tends and new thinking.

    Transport Planning Manager - London Borough Of Bromley

  • It was an interesting conference with lots of speakers describing the approaches taken by their organisations to modernise and transform their people, place and technology.

    OD Partner - London Borough Of Southwark Council

  • A really useful event on a very topical subject. We are starting out on our Climate Emergency journey and it is really important to understand the practical and viable considerations - this was a real help to understanding some of the raft of information that is out there!

    Lead Specialist-Environmental Health - South Somerset District Council

  • Great course, I gained a good insight into what my organisation needs to put in place for our website accessibility and compliance.

    Marketing Communications Officer - Haywards Heath Town Council

  • A real light bulb moment, in how to move forwards the Health and Wellbeing agenda!

    HR Manager - Hertfordshire County Council

  • A very useful event which provided learning from a range of different professional bodies and organisations which can be shared to the wider community to assist with preventing serious accidents on the UKs roads.

    Group Commander Prevention Lead - Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service

  • A fantastic range of speakers with information on websites to visit post conference, so much follow up learning will be made possible from this conference

    Economic Development Officer - Norfolk County Council

  • The Digital Skills and Inclusion Conference provided a very comprehensive look at digital inclusion practice across the UK.

    Employability and Skills Project Co-ordinator - East Sussex County Council

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