TWO WEEKS TO GO: LGA Annual Conference 2019

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 2019

Tuesday 2 July – Thursday 4 July 2019
Bournemouth International Centre

This year’s Local Government Association annual conference comes at a time of huge uncertainty for the funding of local services next year and beyond, a new Prime Minister to be chosen and Brexit yet to be resolved.

Since 2010, councils have lost 60p out of every £1 they had from government to provide services and face an overall funding gap of £8 billion by 2025.

The Spending Review will be make or break for vital local government services and the issues councils and our local services are facing must be top of the Government’s and the new Prime Minister’s agenda. Brexit cannot be a distraction from the challenges facing our public services. The day-to-day concerns of our communities go far beyond Brexit and securing the financial sustainability of councils and vital local services is urgent.

The conference will build on the LGA’s #CouncilsCan campaign to build support among the public, councils, Parliament and central government for long-term investment in local government at that Spending Review.

Over the three days a packed agenda will see a variety of speakers debate issues such as adult social care, children’s services, housing, education, Brexit, skills and more. The Conference will also see Lord Porter give his farewell address as he bows out as LGA Chairman at the end of his successful term at the helm of the organisation and Conservative councillors vote in his successor.

Further information can be found here. For media accreditation, email greg.burns@local.gov.uk.

Speakers include:

• Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
• Jo Swinson MP, Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Rishi Sunak MP, Local Government Minister
• Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison
• Cllr Jonathan Bartley, Co-Leader of the Green Party
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
• Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of NHS Confederation
• Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union
• Nick Walkley, Chief executive of Homes England