Children’s Social Care Strategy to provide workforce support

Despite funding concerns, the government's wide-ranging Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy announced last week has been met with a positive response from local government leaders.

£200m fund for active travel

Active Travel England is inviting local authorities in England to bid for part of a £200m fund for improvements which enable people to choose walking and cycling.

Barnet Council brings 330 staff back in house after ten year Capita 'experiment'

Capita Re staff in trading standards, environmental health, planning highways and other regulatory services will be transferred back in house on 1 April

Unemployment figures hide 'economically inactive'

UK unemployment triples from 3.7 per cent to 12.1 per cent when including three million economically inactive people, according to Cities Outlook 2023 - the latest report from the Centre for Cities.

New North Yorkshire Council will adopt Armed Forces covenant

The new North Yorkshire Council is set to adopt the Armed Forces covenant that was first signed in the county in 2011.

LGA: Vulnerable people hit hardest by cost of living crisis

Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that around a quarter of adults were struggling to stay warm in the last month.

LGA urges support for public sport and leisure services

According to a ukactive survey in November 2022, 40 per cent of council areas will see their leisure centres close or services reduce before 31 March 2023

Sunak sacks Zahawi for failing to declare tax investigation

Sunak's Ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus concluded that Zahawi had made a “serious breach” of the code by not telling officials he was under investigation by the tax body when he was appointed chancellor by Boris Johnson.

Announced in December, Levelling up Secretary Michael Gove has now signed a deal which has allocated £1.4 billion of funding over the next 30 years for the devolved North East

Councils advised to check information sharing agreements with service providers

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman complaints resolution investigation between London Borough of Ealing and the National Fostering Agency (NFA) highlights the need to check what you can and can't share.

WMCA secures £15m to tackle social housing disrepairMould

The work, which is expected to be carried out on hundreds of properties over the coming months, will be aimed at bringing poor quality homes up to the Government’s ‘Decent Homes Standard’.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published a regulatory notice for Sheffield City Council, after concluding the council broke consumer sta

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