Action on exempt housing
Improvements are needed to ensure vulnerable residents get the support they expect and need.
Improvements are needed to ensure vulnerable residents get the support they expect and need.
Councils share the collective national ambition to tackle the country’s housing shortage, and our goals can only be achieved by strong national and local leadership working together.
As councils continue to support new arrivals from Ukraine, changes are being made to the wider asylum system.
Launched with a flurry of grand statements, the ‘Levelling up the UK’ White Paper promised to ‘break the link between geography and destiny, so that no matter where you live you have access to the same opportunities’.
The LGA has warned that criminals are cold calling residents asking for their bank details so they can receive the Government’s £150 energy rebate.
There are another two Green gains from the Conservatives to report, bringing the total to 14 seats captured over the past year in by-elections.
The LGA has been engaging with MPs to improve support for Ukrainian arrivals.
Councils played a crucial role in education during the pandemic – the Government must recognise their importance.
Councils increasingly do not have the capacity and capability to provide ‘appropriate and consistent protection for private renters’, according to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee.