The Editorial Team Placing councils at the heart of the Government’s levelling up ambitions would help create job and career opportunities where they are most needed as the nation recovers from the pandemic, the LGA has said.
The LGA has set up an information hub to help newly elected members get to grips with their role.
Council by-elections resumed for English authorities on 6 May, with more than 350 vacancies filled.
Investing in libraries is key to driving the national recovery from COVID-19 and enabling children to catch up on lost learning, the LGA has said.
The LGA is seeking to influence a range of new legislation that affects the work of councils.
People working in care homes in England will need to have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by October unless they have a medical exemption, under new laws to protect residents.
A further £160 million will be made available to families in England until the end of September, in the final extension of the Government’s COVID Local Support Grant.
Adult social services are facing a ‘deluge’ of requests for care and support from older people and disabled people of working age as society opens up after COVID-19, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has warned.
The NHS has set out how it will ask NHS leaders and partner organisations, including councils, to operate in integrated care systems from April 2022.
Eight in 10 councils in England had to overspend on children’s social care budgets to a combined total of £832 million in 2019/20, LGA analysis shows.