Local government

Guidance and services

• Local democracy in Wales
• Find your local authority
• Community and town councils
• Remote attendance at council meetings: guidance
• Multi-location meetings: fire and rescue, national park and port health authorities
• Connecting with your local community: guidance for community and town councils
• Model byelaws: guidance for local authorities
• Statutory guidance on annual reports for local authorities
• Performance and governance of local authorities: statutory guidance
• Statutory guidance on governance for community and town councils
• Improving local authorities and town councils: guidance
• Local authorities: code of recommended practice
• Corporate Joint Committee: statutory guidance summary
• Local government support and intervention protocol
• Toilets for public use: guidance for local authorities
• Find toilets open to the public
• Map of toilets: guidance for local authorities
• Absence from local authority meetings: family absence
• Power to promote well-being: guidance for local authorities
• Access to information: guidance for community and town councils
• Diversity in democracy: mentoring handbook for councillors
• The local election survey: guidance
• The good councillor’s guide: for Community and Town Councillors
• Estate co-location and land transfer protocol
• Democratic Engagement Grant
• Democratic engagement grant: application forms
• Statutory and non-statutory guidance on democracy within principal councils
• Statutory guidance for fire and rescue and national park authorities: standards of conduct
• Diversity in democracy: an introduction to councils and councillors
• Relationship building and charters for unitary authorities and community and town councils: resource pack
• Returning officer survey: privacy notice
• Guidance For County And County Borough Councils In Wales On Executive And Alternative Arrangements 2006 (2006 No. 56)
• Code of recommended practice for local authority publicity

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Local Government Partnership scheme
  Policy and strategy
• Working Group on Local Government
  Policy and strategy
• The National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Counting Officers' Accounts) Regulations 2010 (2010 No.47)
  Legislation
• Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011: review of reforms
  Report
• Diversity in local government: report
  Report
• The Local Government (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
• Partnership Council for Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Review of community and town councils
  Report
• Administrative costs in local authorities: review
  Report
• Evidence and research on Council Tax and Non-Domestic rates
  Policy and strategy
• Voluntary mergers of local authorities: invitation
  Policy and strategy
• Review of leadership, governance, strategy and capacity: Powys County Council
  Report
• Dealing with alleged misconduct of senior officials in local government (Oldham review)
  Report
• Voter registration: behavioural insights
  Report
• Local elections rules: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Local Government Ethical Standards framework: review
  Report
• The Representation of the People (Electoral Register Publication Date) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
• Arrangements for an interim chief executive at Swansea Council
  Report
  Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales
• Valuing local democracy
  Report
  Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales
• Local government elections pilot scheme orders
  Collection
• The Local Government Act 2000 (Local Authority Constitution) (Wales) Direction 2023
  Legislation
• Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: impact assessments
  Collection
• Increasing the use of Welsh in local government: report and response
  Collection
• Coronavirus legislation: local authority meetings
  Collection
• Democratic Health Task and Finish group
  Policy and strategy
• Consultation on charitable non-domestic rates relief for private schools: children’s rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment