Resources

CCN Councillor Guide 2025

Education Select Committee evidence: solving the SEND crisis

CCN: Local government reorganisation – evaluating the financial impact of population thresholds

PwC: Evaluating the impact of scale in proposals for local government reorganisation

County Spotlight: Technology and Digital

Fair funding review consultation: CCN, SCT and ACCE response

Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement consultation: CCN response

Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry: Adult Social Care Reform – The Cost of Inaction

CCN Dialogues: IMPOWER – The Travel To School Challenge

IMPOWER: The Way We Care

Newton: The Forgotten Story of Social Care

Budget and Spending Review: CCN Submission

The Outlook For Council Finances This Parliament

County Spotlight: Every Day Services

Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework: Consultation response

Isos Partnership: Towards an effective and financially sustainable approach to SEND

This report, commissioned by the CCN and the Local Government Association, looks into the challenges in the SEND system from the perspective of councils, parents, and schools – and sets out solutions.

CCN Analysis – Adult Social Care Charging Reform

CCN Analysis – Housing in Counties

This latest report in the CCN Analysis series ‘Housing in counties: delivering homes for all, in the right places’  looks at several data points on housing over the last decade, and finds various trends within county areas. The study illustrates why the next government should set out a long term plan for housing.

PwC – Workforce of the Future

County Spotlight – library and culture services

Local Government Finance Settlement 2024/25: Consultation Response

Education Select Committee: Children’s Social Care Inquiry

Read evidence the County Councils Network submitted to the Education Select Committee on children’s services, in January 2024. 

IMPOWER – Valuing Care: Using data to improve children and young people’s lives

Newton: Finding a Way Home – how health and social care can optimise hospital flow and discharge this winter

ISOS Partnership: From home to the classroom – making school transport services sustainable

CCN Analysis: Budget Pressures – Autumn 2023

The CCN and SCT have produced this analysis, which outlines the funding pressures county authorities face in 2023/24 and beyond due to high inflation and rising demand.

Consultation Response – Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: implementation of plan-making reforms

CCN Analysis – Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

This CCN Analysis document analyses the number and ratio of electric vehicle charge points in county areas, compared to other parts of the country. It also contains data on the number of plug-in vehicles registered in counties, and sets out the barriers to doing so.

Policy In Focus: Virtual Schools – Education’s Hidden Asset

This Policy In Focus document examines virtual schools, almost ten years after their introduction, and looks at how they can work more effectively going forward.

Newton – Demand and capacity of homes for children in care

This report analyses the cost and implementation implications of proposed Ofsted regulations for semi-independent care settings for young people in care, and makes a series of recommendations for how they can be introduced effectively.