The LGA has said that specialist elderly homes will need to increase by 400,000 units in less than 20 years to match increasing demand.
Nearly half of teachers have warned that their breakfast club will close within three years as a result of low levels of funding.
Lancashire County Council is reported to be planning a £5.5 million cut to adult social care services.
The Institute for Government has argued that Whitehall needs people with specific skills sets and experience to successfully deliver on major projects.
A new survey by the TUC has found that one in eight workers are skipping meals to make ends meet, as a result of stagnant wages.
Manchester City Council is to invest an extra £1.1 million to boost the cleaning of the 116,000 roadside gullies.
Sadiq Khan has urged the government to allow London’s boroughs to increase council tax bills for high-value homes that are left empty.
The LGA has warned that opportunities for large economic growth, jobs and housing production risk being lost because of ‘devolution deadlock’.
New figures have revealed that political parties in the UK received a record £40.1million in donations in the run up to June’s General Election.
Essex County Council has created over 2,500 new school places ahead of the new academic year following £74 million of expansion projects.
Liverpool City Council is set to sign a £21 million deal with Shaw healthcare to build three new residential care homes for people with dementia.
Homes in Nottingham been selected as part of a UK first pilot to radically improve older houses using energy saving and energy generation measures.
Over £100,000 has been announced by the Welsh government to support the delivery of the 30 hours of free early education and childcare.
County authorities could face having social care funding withdrawn, unless ‘undeliverable’ delayed transfers of care targets are met.
New research has highlighted that the UK is spending almost double the rest of the EU combined on large procurement contracts.