To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department provides training on good governance and practice to local councillors.
Answered on
3 May 2023
In 2022/23, the department funded governance training for councils via the Local Government Association (LGA).
The LGA provides bespoke support to councils by networks of LGA regional advisers and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny. The full sector improvement programme can be found on the LGA website.
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