Local services ‘will cost £8 billion more by 2024’
Councils in England face extra cost pressures of almost £8 billion by 2024/25 just to keep vital local services running at today’s levels, according to LGA analysis.
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Creating a net-zero future
COP26 provides a real opportunity to recognise local government as a key partner in tackling climate change.
Proud to be
Councils around the UK are marking Black History Month by engaging with staff and holding events and exhibitions.
More funding needed for council tax support
The LGA is calling for the Chancellor to use this month’s Spending Review to continue grant funding for council tax support schemes over the next three years.
£8.1 billion to ensure safe council housing
The total cost of delivering building safety standards across the entire council housing stock is £8.1 billion over a 10-year period, a report by Savills reveals.
Council housing waiting lists ‘could double’
The LGA has set out the case for building 100,000 green social homes for rent each year, in a new report ‘Building post-pandemic prosperity’.
Call for school-based counselling for all
Fully funded, school-based counselling needs to be available in all state-funded secondary schools and academies, to help support rising numbers of children and young people reporting mental health issues during COVID-19, the LGA has said.
Invest or pay the consequences
Despite a robust evidence base and the best efforts of many skilled and passionate people, the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system in England and Wales isn’t working as well as it should.
Some notable successes
Three Green party gains from Conservative just days apart represent a notable success.