Change Management
Organisational change support during transformation programmes. 250 UK councils have discussed change management in monitored meetings — track who, where and how the conversation is moving.
What councils are saying about change management
Change Management is one of the procurement themes QuorumInsight tracks across UK local government, detected in 14,166 meeting mentions spanning 250 councils. Every mention comes from an analysed council meeting — a cabinet decision, a committee discussion or a budget report — so this is a picture of what councils are actually planning and debating, not a directory of published tenders.
Discussion has cooled quarter-on-quarter: there were 887 mentions in the last three months, against 1,444 in the three months before. For suppliers, that matters because activity in a council meeting typically precedes any formal procurement by months. Reading it early is the difference between shaping a requirement and responding to one.
Mentions over the last 12 months
Monthly change management mentions across all monitored UK councils, by meeting date. The current month is excluded while it is still in progress.
Most active councils
Pembrokeshire County Council in Wales is the most active authority on change management, with 359 mentions across 359 monitored meetings — around 3% of all change management discussion QuorumInsight has tracked. The council returned to the subject as recently as its “Audit, Fleet & Accounts” meeting on 7 Jul 2026.
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council (300 mentions) and Vale of Glamorgan Council (272) are also notably active. The full list of leading councils is below — each links to its live intelligence profile.
| Council | Region | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Pembrokeshire County Council | Wales | 359 |
| Tower Hamlets London Borough Council | London | 300 |
| Vale of Glamorgan Council | Wales | 272 |
| Flintshire County Council | Wales | 263 |
| Edinburgh City Council | Scotland | 255 |
| Somerset Council | South West | 241 |
| City of London Corporation | London | 239 |
| Central Bedfordshire Council | East of England | 237 |
| Glasgow City Council | Scotland | 232 |
| Wokingham Borough Council | South East | 213 |
| Dorset Council | South West | 201 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire Council | Yorkshire and the Humber | 197 |
In councils’ own words
Recent meetings where change management came up, with the relevant passage from the discussion. Each meeting links to the council’s intelligence profile.
Gloucestershire County Council · LGR Asset Plan · 27 May 2026
“… , the areas that we need to improve, like any organisation, there are some areas that we do need to focus on and ours particularly is around change management. It's again this year one of the lowest scores. Last year we did see some improvements, it rose by 4 % but actually it's dropped back and it …”
Norfolk County Council · LGR Update · 22 Apr 2026
“… dividual councils already. | our HR colleagues have put already have a good offer in place to support people through change. There's lots of change management training and also training for people to brush up on their interview skills.”
Buckinghamshire Council · IT Strategy · 16 Apr 2026
“… organisation | The ERP programme is being managed separately. | It is all about the operating model for the organisation and it's all about change management. | We will come forward to cabinet with a proposal of this is what we are proposing to buy against our requirements and these are the evalua …”
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council · Budget Setting & Auditor Report · 2 Mar 2026
“You do have a significant gap in your medium-term financial plan. So that's our first recommendation. Our second recommendation is set out on page 53 of your pack, which relates to the need for urgent improvements in your change management programme to develop robust savings.”
Central Bedfordshire Council · Budget and Precept Setting Approval · 3 Feb 2026
“We had a very comprehensive review of the Bedford to Cambridge and Hertfordshire support services, not the joint protective police services, so not road traffic and arms policing, but the HR, IT, change management and some other departments and that has led to very significant savings as well”
Oxford City Council · Debt & AI Boards · 3 Feb 2026
“every co-pilot needs a pilot. data stays within the Microsoft environment. mandatory training on safe and ethical use. 200k for change management.”
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