Unique partnership celebrates 10th anniversary
Latest press releasesThe Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium, the first ever partnership between local authorities and academics to research and improve leadership and governance, celebrates 10 years of learning and achievement at its Annual Conference on 20-21 January.
The Consortium, which is welcoming two new members: Birmingham City Council and Cardiff County Council, has worked through action research, people development and dissemination of best practice to lead the way in the modernisation and dynamic leadership of government on a local scale.
Professor John Mawson, Director of the Local Government Centre, highlights the importance of some of the Consortium's many achievements, "Under the academic leadership of my predecessor, Professor John Benington, the Consortium tackled difficult and unfashionable issues, such as social exclusion and poverty, the ageing population and the implications of Europeanisation. Many of these initiatives and working groups have since developed into policy programmes such as the Cabinet Office Better Government for Older People Programme. I am immensely proud that much of the work initiated by members of the Consortium has started to touch the lives of ordinary people and improve the way they are governed."
The Consortium, which includes some of the leading local authorities in the country, has established itself as a think tank and learning network. It provides a forum where political leaders, chief executives and chief officers are able to exchange thinking and experience on an inter-authority and cross-party basis, sharing examples of best practice, but also some of their dilemmas, barriers, pitfalls and mistakes. Member authorities learn from their involvement in the research as well as from the experience of their counterparts in other authorities and organisations.
The 10th Annual Conference of the Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium takes place at the University of Warwick 20-21 January. Speakers include Tom Bentley, DEMOS, former advisor to David Blunkett MP, Home Secretary, and John Routledge from the Home Office.
The Consortium, which is welcoming two new members: Birmingham City Council and Cardiff County Council, has worked through action research, people development and dissemination of best practice to lead the way in the modernisation and dynamic leadership of government on a local scale.
Professor John Mawson, Director of the Local Government Centre, highlights the importance of some of the Consortium's many achievements, "Under the academic leadership of my predecessor, Professor John Benington, the Consortium tackled difficult and unfashionable issues, such as social exclusion and poverty, the ageing population and the implications of Europeanisation. Many of these initiatives and working groups have since developed into policy programmes such as the Cabinet Office Better Government for Older People Programme. I am immensely proud that much of the work initiated by members of the Consortium has started to touch the lives of ordinary people and improve the way they are governed."
The Consortium, which includes some of the leading local authorities in the country, has established itself as a think tank and learning network. It provides a forum where political leaders, chief executives and chief officers are able to exchange thinking and experience on an inter-authority and cross-party basis, sharing examples of best practice, but also some of their dilemmas, barriers, pitfalls and mistakes. Member authorities learn from their involvement in the research as well as from the experience of their counterparts in other authorities and organisations.
The 10th Annual Conference of the Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium takes place at the University of Warwick 20-21 January. Speakers include Tom Bentley, DEMOS, former advisor to David Blunkett MP, Home Secretary, and John Routledge from the Home Office.
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