Celebrating older people
Silver Sunday – taking place this year on 4 October – is a special day in the national calendar when everyone can come together to put older people at the heart of the community.
Mutual support
The LGA is doing everything it can to help councils as they respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
More freedom on finances
Our submission to the Treasury sets out how the Budget can unlock the ambitions of councils to further deliver high-quality services, maximise the growth potential of our local areas and help the Government deliver on national priorities.
More spending on local priorities
An extra £30 billion of spending was announced in the Budget in March, much of it aimed at dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
Emergency powers
The LGA has helped shape the new Coronavirus Act to ensure councils can act as a fourth emergency service and design new ways to support communities.
Local party successes
Labour’s newly elected Councillor Gurdev Singh Hayre will probably be the last to succeed in a council by-election for quite some time.
Extra cash to support rough sleepers
The final local government funding settlement for 2020/21, laid before Parliament in February, confirmed that councils will receive a share of £49.2 billion in funding (a 4.4 per cent real terms increase).
Rising to the challenge
Councils are demonstrating their role as leaders of place by stepping up to the unprecedented challenges that COVID-19 brings.
‘Levelling up’ and health inequalities
‘Levelling up’ can only happen if the Government invests tens of billions of pounds more, something that it simply won’t do.