Neighbourhood health at centre of NHS plan
The crucial role of councils in delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England must be recognised, the LGA has said.
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Election registration reforms announced
People who abuse election candidates and campaigners will face tougher sentences, and candidates’ addresses will not be published, in reforms set out in a government elections strategy paper.
Family support hubs for all council areas
One-stop shops for services for babies and young children and their families are to be established in every local authority in England.
Children leaving care for homelessness – MPs
An “alarming” number of children are leaving the care system and becoming homeless, and not in employment or in education, because children’s social care services are overstretched in the face of rising need.
Funding system is “broken”
Councils are being “forced to play along” with the Government’s “top-down” devolution programme or “face the threat of local government reorganisation without consent”, according to Kevin Hollinrake, former Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Reform on a mission to ‘fix’ councils
Reform UK is on a mission to “save Britain… and our many broken councils”, according to Cllr Jaymey McIvor, the party’s Director of Local Government.
Independents told to ‘drive change’
Local government is living through political change and an “age of shocks”, including climate shocks, the LGA’s annual conference heard.
‘Existential crisis’ in social care
The Government needs to do more to address local government’s three ‘Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ – adult social care, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and housing.
