The Museums Association has revealed that spending on museums and galleries by local authorities has fallen by 27 per cent in the past decade.
The LGA and NHS Confederation are calling on the Chancellor to use the Spending Review to provide genuinely new money for social care.
Increasing demand to help safeguard children will see future cost pressures in children’s social care increase by an estimated £600 million each year until 2024/25.
Council leaders have said that long-term investment in public sport and leisure facilities is key to supporting efforts to tackle health inequalities.
The government has announced that vulnerable renters struggling due to the impact of the pandemic will be helped by a new £65 million support
Northern leaders are putting forward a collective partnership offer to the government, setting out how the North can deliver on the levelling up promise.
Age UK has found that Council Tax would have to rise by an average 10 per cent next year to allow social care just to ‘stand still’.
New TUC polling has revealed that one in five key workers in the public sector are ‘actively considering’ quitting and changing profession.
Graduates applying to train as teachers in high-demand subjects will receive thousands of pounds in tax-free cash bursaries.
Families on low incomes face paying more council tax without an extension to one-off government funding for local council tax support schemes.
Skills for Care has found that the growing adult social care sector and its skilled workforce contributes £50.3 billion to the English economy.
Councils have argued that council tax cannot be the sole answer to filling a multi-billion shortfall over the next three years.
Eight areas longlisted for UK City of Culture 2025 have been unveiled by new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, following a record 20 bids for the title.
Islington Council is set to launch London’s first Community Municipal Investment to help provide local people invest in a cleaner, greener, healthier borough.
A new flexible programme focused on helping young people aged 16-18 take their first steps into work is being launched by the Welsh Government.