For services to local government
The Mayor of North Tyneside and the LGA’s Deputy Chief Executive were among those from across local government to be recognised in the New Year Honours List 2023.
The Mayor of North Tyneside and the LGA’s Deputy Chief Executive were among those from across local government to be recognised in the New Year Honours List 2023.
Twenty-one councils have been successful in their applications to the LGA’s 2022/23 Housing Advisers Programme (HAP), an innovative scheme to help councils overcome housing challenges in their local areas.
A new ‘Protect Duty’ aimed at protecting against terrorism in public places is to be introduced across the UK.
Council-run children’s services have improved significantly, despite workforce shortages compounding difficulties in education and social care, according to Ofsted.
Many councils are seeing an overall increase in safeguarding activity in response to the “multi-faceted challenges” children and families face, according to a new report by the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS).
The continued “invisibility” of the adult social care sector is “increasingly damaging” to those who draw on care and those who provide unpaid care at a time of increasing need, rising costs and a shrinking workforce.
More money for social care and schools, a 7 per cent cap on social housing rent rises, and new devolution deals in Cornwall, Suffolk, Norfolk and the North East were among the announcements in last month’s Autumn Statement.
The LGA has called on the Government to end the crisis of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being placed in hotels.
All local authorities have been asked to review housing conditions in their area, following the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak as a result of mould in his family home.
Future teachers, carers and nurses could be held back from realising their potential if proposed cuts to community learning courses go ahead, the LGA has warned.