More than a million vulnerable children in England are growing up emotionally damaged and with reduced life chances because of billions of pounds of austerity cuts to family support and youth services, according to a cross-party House of Lords inquiry.
The number of domestic abuse-related crimes recorded in England and Wales rose 6 per cent in the year ending March 2021, alongside a 22 per cent rise in calls to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline in England.
The Government has announced the 500 successful projects for its £220 million Community Renewal Fund.
Councils in England face extra cost pressures of almost £8 billion by 2024/25 just to keep vital local services running at today’s levels, according to LGA analysis.
The LGA is calling for the Chancellor to use this month’s Spending Review to continue grant funding for council tax support schemes over the next three years.
The total cost of delivering building safety standards across the entire council housing stock is £8.1 billion over a 10-year period, a report by Savills reveals.
The LGA has set out the case for building 100,000 green social homes for rent each year, in a new report ‘Building post-pandemic prosperity’.
Fully funded, school-based counselling needs to be available in all state-funded secondary schools and academies, to help support rising numbers of children and young people reporting mental health issues during COVID-19, the LGA has said.
More than 9.5 million potholes could be repaired or prevented by councils with the funding lost from local road maintenance budgets this year, the LGA has warned.
Councils could have been given a greater role in the initial response to COVID-19, a new cross-party report by MPs has said.