The Local Government Association has said that securing the immediate sustainability of local services must be the top priority for the Spending Review.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has provided further details of the government’s Covid Winter Plan to MPs, setting out post-lockdown rules.
London Councils has that adult social care should receive the same funding increases as the NHS to safeguard London’s future resilience.
Leisure centres closed again due to coronavirus may never re-open unless government brings forward a financial rescue package to save the sector.
Temporary ‘pods’ are being provided to care homes across Wales to better facilitate visits over Christmas and the winter months.
Rishi Sunak is expected to use the upcoming Spending Review to tackle homelessness after coronavirus with a multimillion-pound funding boost.
The LGA says that coronavirus has exposed existing health inequalities which need to be levelled up if we are to protect our communities in future.
Local authorities are anticipating a second wave of homelessness of people hit by the coronavirus pandemic’s economic fall out.
The government has announced that care workers looking after people in their own homes will be offered weekly coronavirus tests.
The Centre for Policy Studies has claimed that freezing public sector pay for the next three years could save a cumulative £23 billion.
Baroness Vere has called upon local authorities to ensure key transport routes to coronavirus test centres are kept open and running smoothly this winter.
It has been reported that millions of public sector workers in England, with the exception of NHS workers, face a pay freeze next year.
A bill to reform local government elections, democracy, performance and governance has been passed in the Senedd.
The Centre for Ageing Better has reported that coronavirus risks setting people in mid-life on a path to poverty and ill-health in old age.
More than 50 projects have been awarded a share of a £10 million pot to increase tree numbers in urban areas through small-scale planting projects.