Care funding key to success of health plan – LGA
The NHS’s plans for health care over the next 10 years can only be fully realised if councils’ adult social care and public health services are properly funded, the LGA has warned.
Contextual safeguarding
How can we protect children from the places that threaten them, as well as the people?
‘Failures of governance’ at academies – MPs
A series of high-profile academy failures has damaged children’s education, according to a critical report from MPs.
NAO report on NHS financial stability
The crisis in social care, staff shortages and growing waiting lists risk thwarting the ambitions of the NHS’s Long Term Plan, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.
A better start
Councils have a key role to play in ensuring the very youngest children get a good start in life.
Cutting air pollution ‘requires resources’
The Government has published its Clean Air Strategy 2019, which aims to reduce the harm to human health from air pollution by half.
Funding to tackle rogue landlords
More than 50 councils are to benefit from nearly £2.4 million to ramp up action against the minority of irresponsible landlords who make tenants’ lives a misery.
New measures to support domestic abuse victims
Economic abuse will form part of a new legal definition of domestic abuse, as set out in a draft Government bill published in January.
Local skills, local people
Apprenticeships and basic skills were among the issues raised at a roundtable discussion aimed at improving local coordination of our fragmented employment and skills system.