08 July 2025
5 min
Consultations continue to take centre stage in the LGPS. In our latest edition of Current issues in the LGPS, we discuss the changes proposed to encourage access and fairness. In other business, a new Stewardship Code is coming and funds across the UK are either in the throes of a valuation year or planning for their next one.
On 21 May 2025, we welcomed officers from LGPS funds across the UK for our LGPS conference, 'Together, focusing on LGPS stakeholders' held in Edinburgh. We invited them to step away from the day job and explore the LGPS from the perspective of those who work within it, benefit from it and are impacted by it. The day was filled with informative sessions and lively discussions giving sharp focus on stakeholders and what truly matters to them now. We covered a lot of ground from balancing employers' needs through to designing for humans to improve LGPS stakeholder experience. Access our conference highlights document and reel here.
The government launched a consultation in May on a range of administration and benefits issues for LGPS England and Wales. Its central aim is to improve access and fairness. Our Briefing Note describes the proposals and includes initial thoughts on how they could work in practice.
Resourcing remains an ever present on the list of challenges LGPS funds face, and we will shortly be undertaking a survey on LGPS salary data so that LGPS funds have access to a rich bank of LGPS specific information on salaries and wider benefits packages, to provide meaningful benchmarking for each role in a Fund. If you would like to know more, please read our recent blog or contact Con Hargrave.
Against the backdrop of heatwaves across the UK, our accounting specialists held a webinar on 30 June aimed at LGPS academies, to talk through some ‘hot topics’ for the August 2025 accounting exercises. This can be watched on-demand here and is useful for academies looking to understand the options available to them this year-end.
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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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