White paper on local government reform | 24 January

There has never been a more difficult time for local government. Rising demand and costs have meant the toughest of choices, with less to spend on the services that communities value. Yet the sector continues to show great resilience and continues to innovate.

Local government is the key to solving some of our biggest national challenges. Local government organisations work at the frontline of people’s daily lives. They shape places, provide vital services that hold our communities together, keep people safe, and create the conditions for prosperity and wellbeing.

Now must be a time for change and new hope. The Local Government Association has consulted widely, including with over 200 local authority leaders and 150 local authority chief executives across England.

January’s webinar will be looking at the published White Paper; to help lead the discussion we will be joined by Stephanie Elsy, chair at Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire NHS Integrated Care Board.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation only and is open to all NHS non-executive directors, chairs, independent members and associate non-executive directors of NHS providers. Others may attend by special invitation. For further details, comments, questions or suggestions, please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk

We hope that you will join us for what will be an interesting and insightful discussion.

Should you have any questions, please contact events@good-governance.org.uk.

Stephanie Elsy - Chair, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire NHS Integrated Care Board

Stephanie has worked in the delivery of public services for over 30 years. She is currently independent chair of Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB; she is a non-executive director at Solent NHS Community and Mental Health Trust.

She was a CEO in the charity sector for 15 years, managing community and residential services for people recovering from substance misuse, people with disabilities and people living with HIV and AIDS.

She then became a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark, eventually becoming leader in 1999. After retiring from local government, she joined the Board of the newly formed primary care trust, where the local authority and NHS were one of the first to combine budgets and leadership of the PCT.

In 2004, she joined a global services company for eight years. She now has a mixed portfolio of non-executive and consultancy roles.