The Society is piloting a new approach to our national events in which we hold one national, flagship event a year (our Autumn conference, this year 12-14 October at Celtic Manor, Newport) and several smaller, regional and special interest events, coordinated across the Society. The first of these was a very successful one day conference on local government transformation run by Socitm Insight on 17 January. As a result of this policy change, Socitm will not be holding the Spring Seminar traditionally held at the end of April.