The government has set out its ambition to balance the nation’s books by reducing public sector costs by approximately £40bn over the next five years.

As central government works towards paying off its deficit, the next decade promises to be a complex and potentially challenging one for local authorities with tough demands being fed down from the top. 

With this in mind, we brought together a group of pioneering leaders to discuss what the local authority would look like by 2025 and paint a picture of the changing citizen. They not only looked at the demands of the citizen and the role of the local authority but also at what the council of the future’s business models, partnerships, technology, senior management and culture will be like and the results of this are talked about in the ‘Changing Landscape for Local Government’ report.