Cost: from £130 + VAT

This practical masterclass is designed to provide delegates with the essential tools to reinvigorate local authority companies. Led by Helen Randall, a leading national expert in local government with more than thirty years’ experience of local authority companies, the course will focus on some of the key lessons to be learned from the inspections of Liverpool, Nottingham and Croydon. It will include:

• Key factors for success
• The signs of impending failure and why Council-owned companies can go wrong
• The roles, risks and legal responsibilities of the shareholder, investor, company director and commissioner
• What many local authorities typically neglect when setting up companies
• Methods to get your company's performance back on track
• What companies need to think about when they start trading

The course will be highly participatory, and delegates are encouraged to bring and be ready to discuss their own example of a local authority company (using information that is appropriate to disclose or already in the public domain).