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Localising test and trace

Councils are to get additional national resources to help them reach more people with COVID-19.

‘Re-thinking local’ provides the framework for councils to take their destinies in their own hands and deliver locally focused recoveries.

The LGA is calling for 100,000 new social homes to be built every year, to help kickstart recovery.

Powers over education and training for young people need to be localised to avert an employment crisis.

Local politicians and parliamentarians met to discuss the vital role of councils and combined authorities in helping people into work.

Learning from the coronavirus crisis and supporting a sustainable recovery were among the themes discussed at the LGA’s virtual Innovation Zone.

The Government’s funding package for councils offers some positive measures and recognises the pressures they are facing, but more is needed.

The time is ripe to make a once-in-a-lifetime change and end homelessness for good.

Cyber criminals will continue to attack councils and the vital public services they deliver.

The LGA has launched a new Remote Peer Support Offer to help councils with their vital work during the pandemic.