The next Local Government Challenge is being launched with the prospect of a £10,000 prize.Here The MJ, one of its supporters, outlines what the Challenge entails, and looks at the experience as a contestant of 2012 winner Hannah Rees from Cornwall Council, and at host authority Thurrock Council.

Fresh from crowning the latest winner of the Local Government Challenge at last June's LGA conference, the anticipation and excitement of beginning the process of recruiting the next generation of Local Government Challenge contestants begins again.