Partnerships for person-centred services
The 2001 ‘Valuing people’ white paper established learning disability partnership boards (LDPs) for three simple but ambitious reasons.
Making our voices heard
In Bradford and Craven, where Katie Peacock lives, the life expectancy of a woman with a learning disability is 29 years less than for a woman who doesn’t have one – and for a man, it is 14 years less. “Very sadly, these shocking figures are in line with national statistics,” Katie notes.
Care services dominate spending
Children’s and adult social care services could fail to support everyone they need to, despite making up nearly two-thirds of councils’ total spending, because of rising demand, increasing costs and inadequate funding.
Local action on climate change
COP26 underlined councils’ importance in tackling the climate emergency.
Councils ‘can help create 700,000 green jobs’
Nearly 700,000 new ‘green’ jobs could be created by 2030 if councils are given a greater role in local job creation, the LGA has said.
Showing our worth as place-makers
Huge thanks to all who managed to attend our hybrid annual conference this year, held on 29 October.
Supporting councils with business engagement
The pandemic recovery offers a real opportunity to reset the relationship with local businesses.
A disparate set of results
There were some fascinating stories, but no clear electoral trends emerged from this latest, large and disparate set of by-elections.