White Paper ‘to join up health and care’
Plans to reform health and care services in England so they can work more closely together have been published in a Government White Paper.
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Honours for public service
Local government workers, firefighters, teachers, police officers and foster carers were among the public sector workers on the New Year Honours List 2021.
New national lockdown as vaccines rolled out
Priority groups are receiving their first vaccine doses as the country begins another round of national lockdowns.
MPs: ‘Create green jobs’
MPs have called on the Government to counter rising unemployment by creating green jobs and focusing investment in energy efficiency, the circular economy, climate adaptation and nature recovery.
‘Lessons to be learned’ on rough sleeping
The number of rough sleepers accommodated during the ‘Everyone in’ initiative over several months “far exceeds” the number recorded in the Government’s annual national snapshot of the rough sleeper population, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).
Pandemic leaves ‘legacy of abuse’
School closures during the first national lockdown left local authorities with a “legacy of abuse and neglect” to respond to.
Provisional finance settlement published
Last month’s provisional finance settlement has been published – and sees new funding for adult and children’s social care.
Spending Review: cash pressures remain
Amid gloomy economic forecasts, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his Spending Review, which he said aimed to “protect the public services most affected by coronavirus”.
LGA: ‘Restore £1.7 billion early intervention funding’
The LGA has called for £1.7 billion in government cuts to early intervention funding to be reversed, as councils prepare for a surge in demand for support for children and young people who have “disappeared” during the pandemic.
Fragmented funding ‘adds up to poor VFM’
English councils received at least 448 individual government grants between 2015/16 to 2018/19 in an increasingly “fragmented and reactive” use of public funding, a new LGA study reveals.