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LGA briefing: Housing and Planning Bill House of Lords, Report Stage
12 April 2016
Local government can play a key role in building more homes. Local authorities should be able to develop a locally responsive mix of housing tenure that works towards supporting home ownership, expanding stock where it is most needed and meeting demand, while reducing welfare spending.
LGA briefing: Policing and Crime Bill, House of Commons Committee Stage
12 April 2016
Local Government Association briefing: Policing and Crime Bill, House of Commons Committee Stage Tuesday 12 April and Thursday 14 April 2016
One Public Estate
8 April 2016
On Friday 8 April 2016 One Public Estate (OPE) launched an expansion. It invites partnerships of councils to apply for support and up to £500k funding by putting forward ambitious work programmes to be delivered in collaboration with other public sector partners in the area. Find out more.
Communities share £560,000 for digital projects
5 April 2016
Projects involving 34 councils have bid successfully for £560,000 funding for digital schemes to transform local services and tackle problems they are already working to resolve.
£6 billion health budget devolved to Greater Manchester
1 April 2016
As the £6 billion health budget is devolved to Greater Manchester Combined Authority today, Chairman of the Local Government Association, Lord Porter, describes the "landmark" transfer of responsibility as a "significant step in joining up social care and health in order to get the best outcomes for people".
Flood risk portal
This resource aims to keep member councils up-to-speed with developments during extreme weather events. With increasing flood risk, there are significant challenges for local authorities in helping their communities.
DevoNext Hub
Everything you need to know about devolution for local government - what has been secured, what is happening across the country right now and what you can do at your council.
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LGA Letter to The Observer about the Education White Paper
This joint letter was published in the Observer on 27 March 2016.
LGA Responds to Public Accounts Committee Report on Care Leavers' Transition to Adulthood
Cllr Roy Perry, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People's Board responds to the Public Accounts Committee's report on care leavers' transition to adulthood.
LGA responds to Children's Commissioner Report on child sexual abuse within the family
Cllr Roy Perry, Chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, responds to 'Protecting children from harm: A critical assessment of child sexual abuse in the family network and priorities for action' published by the Children's Commissioner.
LGA calls for common sense approach to term-time holidays
Headteachers should be allowed to follow a ‘common sense' approach to allowing parents to take children out of school during term-time.
Youth offending team funding reductions could increase number of children in custody
The number of children in custody risks increasing if plans to reduce in-year funding for Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) by an additional £9 million go ahead, council leaders warn today.
Summer Budget: LGA responds to £30 million adoption funding announcement
LGA responds to £30 million adoption funding announcement in today's Budget.
Schools facing places 'tipping point'
Two in five council areas could still have more primary pupils ready to start school than places for them by September 2016, council leaders warn.
Predators could be stopped from grooming with new banning order, councils say
Predatory men suspected of grooming children for sex could be stopped immediately if a new type of banning order was introduced by the new government, local government leaders say.
Post-16 education drop-outs failed by ‘Bums on seats' policy costing £800 million a year
Too many youngsters are being failed by a national ‘bums on seats' approach to post-16 education, warns the LGA.
A million unemployed people receiving no government help into work, councils warn
More than a million unemployed people are falling through cracks in national work schemes that are failing to reach some of the most vulnerable jobseekers, councils warn today.
Blinkered inspection approach could obscure quality of work to tackle child abuse
The true quality of activity to tackle child abuse and neglect across the country could be being obscured because of Ofsted's blinkered approach to inspecting children's services, local government leaders are warning today.
Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation
Protecting children is one of the most important things councils do. This resource brings together, in one place, resources to help councils raise awareness of this issue within their own organisation, with their local partners and their communities.
Councils fear school place tipping point
The £12 billion cost of creating places for the 900,000 extra pupils expected at England's schools over the next decade could push schools to breaking point, council leaders are warning.
£7m funding for victims of sexual violence
The Home Secretary Theresa May and Justice Secretary Chris Grayling have announced an extra £7 million funding to help victims of sexual violence. The funding will run to the end of the 2015/16 financial year.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Female Genital mutilation is a serious form of child abuse and violence against women and girls. Councils have a key statutory role to play in safeguarding children and protecting the health and wellbeing of all women and girls.
Our ambition for children and young people
The LGA report, 'Our ambition for children and young people' aims to support a radical rewiring of local public services. It sets out four high level ambitions and groups 'core measures' underneath them.
Parents must be warned of free school opening delays before national offer day, say councils
Any decision to postpone the opening of a new free school must be made before national offer day to ensure families aren't left disappointed and so valuable school places are freed up for other children, council leaders say.
LGA on FOI on truancy fines
Responding to figures that show growing number of parents are being fined or convicted for truancy, LGA spokesman Cllr David Simmonds CBE said head teachers should be trusted to make decisions about a child's absence without being forced to start prosecutions
Judge education on whether school leavers are earning or learning
Student performance should not just be judged on short-term outcomes such as exam results: finding employment should count too, say council leaders.
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