Council recruitment campaign targets young people
An innovative pilot campaign aimed at promoting local government careers for young people launched in October in the West Midlands.
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Fair pay for care workers ‘must be fully funded’
The Government has announced a £500 million investment for the first fair pay agreement for adult care workers, alongside a public consultation on its implementation.
£5 billion for community regeneration
Community groups will be given powers to block betting and vape shops from opening and save local pubs and libraries from closure.
Communities ‘don’t know who is managing flood risk’
MPs have called for a single national flood information and reporting service, warning that many communities do not know who is responsible for managing flood risk in their area.
Licence plan to protect children from vape sales
The Government has announced plans to introduce the first licences for retailers selling tobacco, vapes and nicotine products.
‘Some progress’ on housing complaints
Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman for England continued to rise last year, though there are signs of improvement in how some landlords are handling cases, according to its Annual Complaints Review 2024-25.
Closing the gap in child dental health
More than two million free toothbrushes and toothpastes have been given to children in disadvantaged communities as part of local councils’ delivery of the national supervised toothbrushing programme.
60 seconds with…Councillor Sir Ron Watson CBE
Sir Ron Watson CBE (Con, Sefton), 80, has been a councillor since 1969 and helped establish the LGA
Teen pregnancies on the rise
Teenage pregnancy rates are rising for the first time in 14 years, prompting an LGA call for renewed action, including a national sexual health strategy.
Right to Buy reforms ‘need to go further’
While recent reforms of Right to Buy (RTB) led to a sharp increase in applications from people wanting to buy their council houses, local authorities in England see long-term benefits from them for boosting their stock of social housing, a new LGA survey has found.