06 August 2025
5 min
The summer holidays don’t mean a rest for national level changes which will likely affect LGPS funds, and there’s no rest for those involved with the valuation or accounting exercises!
We've published our draft response ahead of the closure of MHCLG’s ‘Access and Fairness’ consultation on 7 August. This sets out our thoughts on the proposals and highlights some of the practical issues which we believe will need to be considered. As many of the amendments would require retrospective changes, we believe clear and practical implementation expectations would need to be set out by the government so that LGPS funds can deliver the changes in an efficient and effective way. Our prior Briefing Note, providing a detailed overview of the proposals, can be read here.
We've recently launched our salary and benefits benchmarking survey. Our aim is to build a comprehensive and LGPS-specific data set to ensure that LGPS funds have the evidence and data they need when undertaking workforce planning. All funds who take part will receive a free summary report, detailing salary benchmarks for a few of the roles. There will also be the opportunity to receive a more detailed report which covers all of the roles and additional information collected in the survey. The survey will remain open until the end of August. Funds can sign up now, by registering an interest here.
Awareness and discussion of the Gender Pensions Gap (GPG) in the LGPS space has been picking up at pace. With the Access and Fairness Consultation being followed by the UK Government announcing a new Pensions Commission to improve future pension outcomes, GPG and pensions adequacy are now rightly receiving the attention they deserve. Our first briefing note in our Pensions Adequacy series explores the results from analysis we've carried out into the GPG for a number of LGPS funds.
In the next blog in his series about Design Thinking, our LGPS digital expert, Chris Varley, shows how defining the right problem to solve is the most critical – but often most overlooked – step in the design process. Moving beyond empathy, he explores the ‘Define’ stage, and how we can turn user insights into clear, actionable problem statements that align teams, focus decisions, and prevent wasted effort.
Download the full publication below.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the topics covered in this edition, feel free to get in touch.
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