What is the IAG?

Founded in 1992 the Inter Authorities Group (IAG) is an independent officer led association. Today it has a membership of over 55 local authorities and other public bodies.

Non partisan and non profit making, the IAG was created to provide a forum where practitioners could share best practice and benchmark in an informal risk free environment.

An executive committee, elected annually by member authorities, provides overall direction to a diverse and progressive agenda centred round the following objectives:

• Promoting high quality, cost effective public services through the sharing of knowledge, intelligence and best practice;
• Contributing to the personal development needs of the membership, a cost effective way to achieve CPD and management development opportunities.

It is from this position of strength that the IAG is able to facilitate change and deliver performance, assisting authorities in the ongoing implementation and development of best practice, thereby helping to meet the wider challenges of modern government.

"The Inter Authorities Group makes a valuable contribution to the development of modern public services. Through its provision of a wide and varied peer support network and access to leading thinkers in, and shapers of, local government, the question has to be, can you afford not to be a member of it?" David Cook, Chief Executive, Kettering Borough Council