In the latest issue:
Spring Budget 2024
The last Spring Budget before the General Election did not contain any measures to adequately fund the local services people rely on every day, the LGA has concluded.
Wasteful words
While we have made a lot of progress on tackling waste by emphasising the last part of the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mantra, we can’t recycle our way out of the climate emergency.
Evidence-based support for UAS children
Unaccompanied children seeking asylum are a vulnerable group in need of sensitive, evidence-based support.
The challenges of coastal change
Local authorities around the country are grappling with a range of issues caused by coastal erosion.
AI and children’s social care
In ‘Stable homes, built on love’, the Government outlined its strategy to reform children’s social care and its aim to develop ‘a system that continuously learns and improves, and makes better use of evidence and data’.