Asylum housing costs up – NAO
Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and new large sites are housing fewer people than planned, according to the National Audit Office.
Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and new large sites are housing fewer people than planned, according to the National Audit Office.
The LGA is proposing reforms to the Right to Buy (RTB) scheme in England to prevent the year-on-year net loss of social housing stock.
Seven in 10 people believe supermarkets and retailers use too much packaging, according to research by YouGov for the LGA.
The Government is being urged to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) to help protect vulnerable households across the UK.
The Government has said its public health grant allocations to councils, published in February, will deliver a real-terms increase of more than 4 per cent over 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Powers to ban pavement parking should be extended across England to make streets safer, councils have said.
There were more than 31,000 hospital operations last year to remove rotten teeth in children and teenagers – equating to 119 per working day, according to new official figures.
The ending of funding for suicide prevention projects could have “life or death consequences” in some areas, the LGA has warned.
Councils in England are to receive an extra £600 million in the financial year 2024/25, of which £500 million will be for adult and children’s social care services.
The LGA is calling on the Government to extend the Household Support Fund, amid warnings that six million of the poorest people in the UK would need to more than double their income to escape poverty.