"No Government plan to secure councils' financial future" says PAC
‘Complacent’ MHCLG overly reliant on favourable Spending Review outcome, warns PAC...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
BCC: Credit ‘apathy’ restricting potential growth opportunities for SMEs
Over half of UK businesses have not attempted to apply for finance over the past year amid limited investment intentions and weakening cash flow...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
Rural communities face a post-brexit "perfect storm", LGA warns
Unaffordable homes, poor connectivity, skills gaps and health inequalities are combining to create a “perfect storm” that is threatening the future success and prosperity of rural areas, council leaders reveal today...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
LGA responds to PAC report on local government funding
Responding to the Public Accounts Committee report on the financial sustainability of local authorities, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Resources Board, said...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
Leeds confirmed as site of HS2 Eastern Leg Rolling Stock Depot
The Government has confirmed that the new HS2 Rolling Stock depot will be constructed in Leeds, driving forward local regeneration and creating up to 125 skilled jobs, ensuring Yorkshire benefits from the arrival of HS2...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
PAC report confirms the Government is doing absolutely nothing about funding crisis in local government - Gwynne
Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour’s Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report which has concluded that there is no Government plan to secure the financial future of local councils, said...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
LGA responds to NAO report on Health and Social Care integration
Responding to a National Audit Office report on the “Health and Social Care Interface”, which assesses the challenges preventing health and social care from working together effectively...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
“A baseline without basis”: New report challenges the validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
A new report from an expert panel convened by the British Educational Research Association (BERA) sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 00:01
Palestinian Bedouin community faces demolition after Israeli court ruling, warns UN rights office
A Palestinian Bedouin community is under threat from a demolition order within days, to make way for Israeli settlement expansion, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on Tuesday...
Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:54
New law introduced to protect vulnerable people in care
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill was introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday 3 July and seeks to replace the current system known as ‘Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards...’
Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:31