Event title
- How to Design a Strategic Authority
Location
Date
Keynote speaker
- Martin Reeves (Chief Executive, Oxfordshire County Council)
Event details
This event is part of New Local's ongoing offer to members, supporting local leaders and partners to navigate – and shape – the next chapter of the UK’s devolution story. As the landscape of English devolution evolves, the Government has set an intention that new strategic authorities will be established everywhere.
The nature of existing strategic authorities varies between London’s GLA and existing combined authorities, which themselves have differing powers and forms. With the pace of change gathering speed, the event will explore how strategic authorities can best be designed as an effective and impactful tier of governance.
Participants will take part in a timely and thought-provoking session exploring how to create a strategic authority that is impactful and serves to add value as a subregional, collaborative institution working between local and national levels.
At the heart of this event is this important question: How can the benefit of strategic scale combine with local delivery to enable better outcomes for communities?
Martin Reeves (Chief Executive, Oxfordshire County Council) will be the keynote speaker at this event. He will share his experience of being the Chief Executive of West Midlands Combined Authority and at Coventry City Council and what he learnt from the process of delivering change at pace.
Whether participants are currently directly involved in the devolution priority programme, watching developments with interest, or their council already works within a devolved strategic authority area and is actively forming new ways of working, this session will offer critical insights and practical reflections to inform participants' thinking.
To register and attend this virtual event, participants can access How to Design a Strategic Authority.
Convened by New Local.