Cash for care homes
The Government has announced an extra £600 million for infection control measures in care homes in England and published additional guidance for the sector.
The Government has announced an extra £600 million for infection control measures in care homes in England and published additional guidance for the sector.
Black people are nearly twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white people, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, with 47 of 94 local areas inspected by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission found to have ‘serious weaknesses’.
Local authority children’s services have been reduced to “crisis-driven fire-fighting” as a result of years of under-investment, children’s charities have warned.
A £250 million emergency ‘active travel fund’ will help encourage cycling and walking through new infrastructure such as pop-up bike lanes, protected space for cyclists, wider pavements, safer junctions and cycle and bus-only roads.
Queues formed at local waste and recycling centres as tips started reopening in May, two months after they closed at the start of the lockdown.
The LGA is warning that gyms and leisure providers face a crisis point, as many aren’t eligible for the Government’s support packages.
Desperately needed new social homes could go unbuilt unless the time that councils are given to spend money from Right to Buy sales is extended from three to five years, the LGA has warned.
Employment experts have called for a £1 billion ‘youth guarantee’, and urgent investment in education and back-to-work support, as unemployment figures rocket following the coronavirus crisis.
As first was going to press, councils were being asked by government to urgently support rough sleepers and vulnerable homeless people into accommodation – even as many councils were continuing to experience issues with placing homeless households in hotels and B&Bs.