£8.1 billion to ensure safe council housing
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.
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Council housing waiting lists ‘could double’
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
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.
‘Lost’ funding for almost 10 million potholes
More than 9.5 million potholes could be repaired or prevented by councils with the funding lost from local road maintenance budgets this year, the LGA has warned.
Early pandemic response was ‘public health failure’
Councils could have been given a greater role in the initial response to COVID-19, a new cross-party report by MPs has said.
Press ahead with rural and urban devolution, say MPs
The Government should press ahead with further devolution in England and examine the case for devolving greater powers over services, including health, housing, planning and education, MPs have said.
Leadership of care and health under review
A Government review of health and social care leadership must work closely with local government to utilise councils’ expertise and help inform its recommendations, the LGA has said.
Care vacancies ‘higher than pre-covid’
More social care jobs are unfilled than before the pandemic, with care providers facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a workforce charity.
‘One in 10 will have diabetes by 2030’
Almost one in 10 people in the UK will have diabetes by 2030 amid rising levels of obesity, according to Diabetes UK.
More funding needed for public health
An additional £1.4 billion a year by 2024/25 is now needed to restore the real-terms cut to the public health grant and keep pace with rising demand and costs, according to new analysis by the charity The Health Foundation.