The government must work with councils to implement the SEND reforms and provide more funding details, as the current system is “vulnerable”, the Local Government Association has warned.
Housebuilding will suffer despite signs of improvement across social housing finance, with almost half of councils saying budget pressure could constrain their activity, a study by the Local...
Government subsidies have failed to cover the rising cost of temporary accommodation to councils across England since 2017-18 to the tune of £1.5bn, analysis by the Local Government Association has...
Eight in 10 councils will be unable to set balanced budgets if SEND deficits are not written off and the provision system is not reformed, the Local Government Association has warned, reiterating its...
Waste services are at risk of being controlled by the packaging industry, with funding docked from councils that fail to comply with the industry’s own preferred collection methods, the government...
Councils are calling for a major update in the way they are reimbursed for the cost of temporary accommodation after new figures showed the bill had soared by a quarter in the last year.
Research has suggested that although last year’s reforms to the Right to Buy scheme led to a short term uptick in applications, the changes should begin to deliver long-term benefits soon.
The government has been urged to scrap permitted development rights in the wake of new research showing that thousands of affordable homes have been lost to office-to-residential conversions.
There have been growing calls for the government to increase the levels of available temporary accommodation to ease the current crisis surrounding asylum seekers in hotels.
Plans to overhaul the funding of local government fail to address the extreme financial pressure under which the sector is operating, the government has been warned.
Administrating authorities risk being overloaded by proposals to tackle inequality and discrimination in the Local Government Pension Scheme, the government has been warned.
English councils hold the key to unlocking potential growth of £276bn if they are allowed genuine stewardship of their local economies, according to a study.
The struggle faced by domestic abuse survivors to access local support has been seriously underestimated by the government, according to a critical new report.
Local authorities are backing government moves to ban the public sector from making ransomware payments but want to see stronger obligations imposed on suppliers.
The government has come under pressure to provide a long-term funding solution for children’s social care in the light of analysis showing 1,700 children are referred to social services every day in...
More than half of councils with education remits face Section 114 notices when the temporary fix keeping high-needs spending deficits off their main balance sheets expires next year, according to new...
