Meetings for the 21st century
The failure to permit councils to continue holding online meetings is difficult to understand and impossible to excuse.
Renewing the Covenant in the Capital
In the past two years, Lewisham Council has supported Renewing the Covenant in the Capital, a Ministry of Defence project which has helped local authorities across London to audit and improve their service offer to the armed forces community.
Enforcing coronavirus regulations
Councils’ enforcement and compliance teams have been stretched thin in response to the pandemic.
Making custom and self-build part of your housing strategy
This is the year self-build and custom house building will scale up.
More people advised to shield
The number of people considered to be clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to COVID-19 and advised to shield has been expanded by an additional 1.7 million.
A roadmap to recovery
Councils will continue to do all they can to support the Government’s plans for tackling COVID-19 and reducing restrictions.
Skills for the future
Apprentices have played a key role in local government’s response to the pandemic.
‘Review private equity role in care placements’
The LGA has urged the Government’s review of children’s social care to consider the impact of increasing private equity and stock market involvement in the system, after publishing new research that shows the six largest independent providers of placements made £219 million in profit last year.
A terrible toll
As first was going to press, it was confirmed that more than 100,000 people across the country had died within 28 days of a COVID-19 test – just over a year since the first two official cases were recorded in the UK.