Local Government Chronicle
Encyclopedia
Local Government Chronicle (LGC) is a British
weekly magazine
for local government officers, and is published by Emap
. The magazine was launched in 1855 by bookseller and publisher Charles Knight
. It is politically independent.
Subjects LGC covers include finance
, law
, management
, housing
, planning
, regeneration, the environment
, education
, big society, local elections, the third sector and social services. Emma Maier took over as editor in July 2009 from Karen Day. It features contributions from analysts including Tony Travers
from the London School of Economics
, a weekly anonymous columnist LGC Insider and various governmental figures.
It works closely with its sister publication the Health Service Journal
to provide comprehensive health coverage, given the continued expansion of health into the local government remit; specifically through the Health and Social Care Bill 2011
.
It provides comprehensive local election coverage each year, in the form of rolling online results, expert analysis from Professors Rallings and Thrasher from Plymouth University, political reaction and a council control map.
In recent times it has gained a reputation for its coverage of Local Enterprise Partnerships, with their chief reporter, Allister Hayman being shortlisted for the PPA Awards 2011 writer of the year (Business Media).
Among its other activities, LGC runs the first national awards to be launched for local government, the LGC Awards for Excellence, has recently launced the Business Partnership Awards; which reward private contractors who work with local authorities in the UK to deliver services, and a large number of public sector conferences.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
weekly magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
for local government officers, and is published by Emap
EMAP
Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...
. The magazine was launched in 1855 by bookseller and publisher Charles Knight
Charles Knight (publisher)
Charles Knight was an English publisher and author.-Early life:The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father...
. It is politically independent.
Subjects LGC covers include finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
, management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, housing
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
, planning
Planning
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
, regeneration, the environment
Environment (biophysical)
The biophysical environment is the combined modeling of the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables, parameters as well as conditions and modes inside the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two categories:...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, big society, local elections, the third sector and social services. Emma Maier took over as editor in July 2009 from Karen Day. It features contributions from analysts including Tony Travers
Tony Travers
Tony Travers is a British academic and journalist, specialising in issues affecting local government. He is the director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science...
from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, a weekly anonymous columnist LGC Insider and various governmental figures.
It works closely with its sister publication the Health Service Journal
Health Service Journal
Health Service Journal is a weekly news print title and website on the British National Health Service, healthcare management and health policy....
to provide comprehensive health coverage, given the continued expansion of health into the local government remit; specifically through the Health and Social Care Bill 2011
Health and Social Care Bill 2011
The Health and Social Care Bill 2011 is proposed health care reform legislation introduced in the House of Commons on 19 January 2011. If passed, the Bill would be the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. It proposes to abolish NHS...
.
It provides comprehensive local election coverage each year, in the form of rolling online results, expert analysis from Professors Rallings and Thrasher from Plymouth University, political reaction and a council control map.
In recent times it has gained a reputation for its coverage of Local Enterprise Partnerships, with their chief reporter, Allister Hayman being shortlisted for the PPA Awards 2011 writer of the year (Business Media).
Among its other activities, LGC runs the first national awards to be launched for local government, the LGC Awards for Excellence, has recently launced the Business Partnership Awards; which reward private contractors who work with local authorities in the UK to deliver services, and a large number of public sector conferences.