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[The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education] NIACE worked with a small group of local authority adult learning and skills providers to explore the leadership challenges arising from a change in inspection arrangements whereby all types of government funded provision, referred to as ‘remits’, are inspected simultaneously. This process is known as multi-remit inspection. A second objective was to identify from those who had experience of this process what leadership strategies might be useful to local authorities likely to be inspected on a multi-remit basis. The research aimed to test the hypothesis that this change would be challenging to local authorities. Case studies were created through semi-structured interviews with staff who had experienced this form of inspection. These took the form of professional dialogues. Key findings were: that multi-remit inspection presented a greater leadership challenge where remits were separately managed; that in all cases the process had been a catalyst for change, and a positive one; and that being permitted only one nominee (first point of contact and liaison for inspectors) was problematic and created a very heavy workload. Participants suggested a number of useful leadership strategies, the most important being to establish productive working relationships between ‘remits’ at the earliest opportunity.