Top tips for new councillors
Whether you’re newly elected, or an experienced member supporting new colleagues, the LGA can offer helpful advice and support.
Whether you’re newly elected, or an experienced member supporting new colleagues, the LGA can offer helpful advice and support.
Local authorities have been charged with bringing the Government’s levelling-up agenda to fruition.
Planning fees would need to be increased by almost 60 per cent to ensure all councils in deficit are able to break even, LGA modelling has revealed.
Labour will have to wait to see if May’s local election results presage a General Election victory.
The LGA has reiterated calls for councils to be given powers to ensure that children who are missing school don’t slip through the net.
An overhaul of housing laws aimed at improving the quality of housing and empowering renters to challenge poor landlords without fear of losing their homes has been announced by the Government.
The LGA has started discussions on an assurance framework for local government.
An increasing number of landlords are being allowed to profit by providing costly, sub-standard housing with little or no support, supervision or care for vulnerable residents, according to the National Audit Office.