Helping people and communities on their way to success is what the best local authorities do continually. They excel at creating local solutions for local needs by combining visionary goals with highly professional management. The IDeA works in partnership with all councils in England and Wales, to enhance the performance of the best, accelerate the speed of improvement of the rest, and develop the sector as a whole.

The IDeA Knowledge website [1] delivers forward-thinking and in-depth content on improvement issues, shares examples of good practice from councils across England and Wales, and provides information on the IDeA’s range of tools and services. IDeA Knowledge aims to stimulate and support self-sustaining improvement within local government.