Disabled councillors
The LGA is offering disabled councillors free one-to-one coaching sessions focused on leadership development.
The LGA is offering disabled councillors free one-to-one coaching sessions focused on leadership development.
Criminals are exploiting the analogue-to-digital switchover to scam vulnerable residents who use health care telephony devices into giving out personal information such as bank details.
Taxpayers will continue to subsidise planning services by almost £5 million a week until the Government finalises measures to increase fees to cover the cost of processing applications, the LGA has warned.
The autumn conferences are an opportunity to influence party manifestos.
New legislation could have far-reaching effects on councils’ pensions and procurement functions.
The LGA has reiterated its long-standing call for a national lead body to raise awareness of the use of a collapse-prone concrete in schools and other public buildings.
More than a fifth (22 per cent) of Afghans who had been living in bridging hotels in England and Wales have presented to councils as homeless, an LGA survey has found.
Years of funding reductions have left council budgets “buckling” under soaring costs for children’s social care, a group of five leading children’s charities has warned.
The Electoral Commission has called for the Government to ensure future elections are as accessible as possible in a new report on voter ID arrangements.
A devolved, long-term plan for local road repairs is needed to get investment back up to the levels of other leading countries, the LGA has said.