Twelve years of economic failure
Just 55 days after the disastrous mini-budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement, which confirmed that working people will pay the price of Tory incompetence.
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Voter ID will stop people voting
The UK Government has announced a multimillion-pound plan that would stop people from voting in elections unless they can show photo identification (ID).
Mitigating the Truss mini-budget
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has attempted to mitigate the disastrous Liz Truss Budget, adding £8.5 billion to health, social care and schools’ budgets in 2024/25, but leaving other departments to absorb the impact of higher inflation.
Cost-of-living crisis in the countryside
During our National Rural Conference 2022, in late September, the Rural Services Network published research into the cost-of-living crisis.
Connecting communities
The Llanrhian Connected Community is an initiative that uses grant funding to employ two part-time community link officers, who are helping to create a stronger and more resilient local community.
Audit fees to increase
Public Sector Audit Appointments Ltd (PSAA) has completed its procurement of audit services on behalf of 470 opted-in local government, police and fire bodies (99 per cent of eligible bodies).
The cost of underfunded local services
Amid ongoing financial, economic and political uncertainty, the LGA continues to call strongly for a long-term government plan to put councils’ finances on a sustainable footing.
Public services at breaking point
Just weeks after taking power, Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng made a remarkable impact – their disastrous kamikaze mini-Budget crashed the economy, causing market panic, and forcing the Bank of England to intervene.
Budgets destroyed by inflation
Frontline services, already cut to the bone, and regeneration projects are under the greatest threat, with inflationary pressures predicted to cost councils more than £1 billion next year at least.
Councils creaking under the strain
Before the mini-Budget, the LGA had calculated a £2.4 billion shortfall in our council budgets from next May.