The Autumn Statement
Calls to ease budget pressures in children’s services and adult social care ignored.
Autumn Statement
Autumn Statement: ‘better than feared’
More money for social care and schools, a 7 per cent cap on social housing rent rises, and new devolution deals in Cornwall, Suffolk, Norfolk and the North East were among the announcements in last month’s Autumn Statement.
The Autumn Statement
The 2022 Autumn Statement confirmed that budgets for each central government department will be maintained at least in line with those set in the 2021 Spending Review.
Devolution – driving local growth
Financial turbulence is as damaging to local government as it is to businesses, and rising costs and inflation are eating away at both council and household budgets.