District council services play a key role in determining the health of their communities, making districts indispensable strategic partners in integrated care...
Driving better health outcomes: districts’ role in ICSs
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Reports
Districts Deliver: How local people view their councils
Districts Deliver: How local people view their councils Exclusive research has revealed unprecedented insight into the value people place on universal local...
Empowered councils can deliver net zero and clean growth
Empowered councils can deliver net zero and clean growth Local government should be empowered to independently fund clean growth projects and lead the drive...
Fit For the Future: The Health Value of Wellbeing and Leisure Services
Fit for the Future: The Health Value of Wellbeing and Leisure Services This new report from DCN, produced with health consultants HEC at University of East...
Bigger is still Not Better – a report by Professor Colin Copus
Bigger is still Not Better - a report by Professor Colin Copus This timely new report from Professor Colin Copus, Emeritus Professor of Local Politics, De...
Levelling up places: A series of case studies demonstrating districts’ power in place
Levelling up places: A series of case studies demonstrating districts’ power in place This new pamphlet showcases how districts are reimagining town centres...
Levelling up towns and cities in non- metropolitan England: Principles for county devolution
Levelling up towns and cities in non-metropolitan England: Principles for county devolution Devolution can give communities the opportunity to shape their own...
Briefing note: The Resources and Waste Strategy Reforms
Briefing note: The Resources and Waste Strategy Reforms In this briefing note we detail some of our major concerns that arise from the three recent Defra...
Briefing note: The threat to leisure centres and the value of leisure services
Briefing note: The threat to leisure centres and the value of leisure services In this briefing note, aimed primarily at parliamentarians we make the case for...
Building back better – leaving no-one behind
Building back better – leaving no-one behind In market towns and new towns, in cathedral cities, coastal communities and the countryside, our district...
Grant Thornton Transformation in localities report
Grant Thornton Transformation in localities report This short report has been commissioned by DCN as a follow-up to our 2018 “Transformation in...
District councils and the Private Rented Sector
District councils and the Private Rented Sector: Working Together to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Tenants and the Local Economy Covid-19 has had...