The LGA has called for £1.7 billion in government cuts to early intervention funding to be reversed, as councils prepare for a surge in demand for support for children and young people who have “disappeared” during the pandemic.
The Chancellor has decided to only conduct a one-year Spending Review in order to prioritise the response to COVID-19, and focus on immediate support to create jobs.
The LGA is urging the Government to appoint a youth minister and take emergency measures to prevent a ‘lost’ generation of young people missing out on training and jobs
Local safety nets and early help services need to be properly funded to avoid children and their families falling into crisis
Next year’s council elections offer an important chance to improve the diversity of candidates standing to represent their local communities
It is important that articles like these are written to encourage young people, older people, and women from the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities to feel confident enough to put themselves forward to enter public life.
In need of remote learning tools to reduce costs while increasing hours of education, local authorities are turning to a desktop robot.
English councils received at least 448 individual government grants between 2015/16 to 2018/19 in an increasingly “fragmented and reactive” use of public funding, a new LGA study reveals.
It is almost impossible to express how excited I am about the opening of The Box in Plymouth, the largest arts and heritage space to open in the UK this year.
The theory behind local government is a good one: local people, representative of the local population, represent the area.