The Home Office has increased financial support for councils who look after asylum-seeking children, including a targeted 25 per cent uplift for local authorities looking after the highest numbers of such children.
Additional funding is needed to support all early years’ providers for the period of the coronavirus crisis if enough childcare places are to be available for families who need them, the LGA has warned.
As first was going to press, the Government was working on a review of the two-metre social-distancing rule, which was expected to report by 4 July.
The Government needs to bring together a comprehensive national strategy to prevent rough sleepers and homeless people returning to the streets after the pandemic, according to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee.
Leisure centres closed because of the coronavirus crisis may never re-open unless the Government brings forward a financial rescue package to save the sector, according to a new survey.
Councils should be given the power to close schools or nurseries where testing indicates new clusters of COVID-19, the LGA has said
Local government faces “unsustainable” financial pressures as the sector continues to lead efforts to beat the coronavirus pandemic, the LGA has warned.
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’.