Creativity under lockdown
Councils’ culture and leisure services have never been more important and have a vital role to play in the recovery from COVID-19.
Supporting council suppliers
Protecting community supply chains has been vital to keeping local services running.
Profiling child vulnerability
Nobody knows better than local authorities the challenge of keeping vulnerable children safe.
Pandemic exposes fragility of social care
The lessons learnt from the past few months will be many and far-reaching. None will be more important than the fragility of the social care system.
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.
Pandemic highlights health inequalities
Black people are nearly twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white people, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Support for local leadership
The scale of the challenge that councils are currently facing requires strong, responsive and resilient leadership.
May’s local elections – who would have won?
We will never know, of course, but the Conservatives could have been celebrating their best local election results for nearly three decades.
SEND pupils ‘missing out’
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’.