Social care ‘must be post-election priority’
Adult social care and support needs to be at the top of the next government’s agenda, according to the LGA and a host of other organisations and charities.
‘Invest in children’
The next government needs to invest in children’s services so councils can fulfil the ambitions of the Children’s Act, the LGA has said.
Call for alternatives to business rates
Before Parliament was dissolved for the General Election, the influential Treasury Select Committee published a wide-ranging report on the system of business rates in England and Wales.
Parents under pressure
Child-to-parent violence can occur in any family anywhere, but parents are often too ashamed to seek help.
Local enterprise
Combining a strategic location with public and private investment and the story of a real place has helped create jobs and bring derelict land back into use.
Diversity needs civility in public life
I have always been a passionate advocate for local government.