In the latest issue:

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Proud to be

by The Editorial Team

Councils around the UK are marking Black History Month by engaging with staff and holding events and exhibitions.

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The Spending Review 2021

by The Editorial Team

Building back better means building back local.

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More funding needed for council tax support

by The Editorial Team

The LGA is calling for the Chancellor to use this month’s Spending Review to continue grant funding for council tax support schemes over the next three years.

£8.1 billion to ensure safe council housing

by The Editorial Team

The total cost of delivering building safety standards across the entire council housing stock is £8.1 billion over a 10-year period, a report by Savills reveals.

Council housing waiting lists ‘could double’

by The Editorial Team

The LGA has set out the case for building 100,000 green social homes for rent each year, in a new report ‘Building post-pandemic prosperity’.

Call for school-based counselling for all

by The Editorial Team

Fully funded, school-based counselling needs to be available in all state-funded secondary schools and academies, to help support rising numbers of children and young people reporting mental health issues during COVID-19, the LGA has said.

Invest or pay the consequences

by Oliver Standing

Despite a robust evidence base and the best efforts of many skilled and passionate people, the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system in England and Wales isn’t working as well as it should.