Children’s and adult social care services could fail to support everyone they need to, despite making up nearly two-thirds of councils’ total spending, because of rising demand, increasing costs and inadequate funding.
COP26 underlined councils’ importance in tackling the climate emergency.
Nearly 700,000 new ‘green’ jobs could be created by 2030 if councils are given a greater role in local job creation, the LGA has said.
Huge thanks to all who managed to attend our hybrid annual conference this year, held on 29 October.
The pandemic recovery offers a real opportunity to reset the relationship with local businesses.
There were some fascinating stories, but no clear electoral trends emerged from this latest, large and disparate set of by-elections.
I would first like to express my thanks to the hundreds of district and unitary council leaders and chief executives who joined us for our annual conference last month (Nov).
Investment in bus services is urgently needed if councils are to reduce car journeys, lower carbon emissions and help the UK work towards its net zero goal by 2050 or earlier.
