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.
New LGA guidance raises key issues for those struggling to balance councils’ budgets laid waste by COVID-19.
COVID-19 has forced councils to hold key meetings remotely – but there would be environmental and other benefits to continuing the practice.
A new scheme to help first-time buyers could reduce the supply of other affordable and social homes for rent.
Councils have risen to the challenges facing the licensed sector during COVID-19, but greater local flexibilities would be better for businesses.
Council-provided public health services continue to improve and evolve to tackle health inequalities, according to the LGA’s latest annual report.
Engaging staff and updating their IT skills has helped with the digital transformation of Salford City Council.
With greater access to information than ever before, the problem we face increasingly is not a lack of information, but finding the ‘right’ information and avoiding misinformation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives. Lockdowns, shutdowns and empty office buildings must surely raise a few questions about how we all operate and, indeed, how we may operate in the future.
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.