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Beverley Egan: Our new way of addressing social care pressures
6 小时之前 · Beverley Egan: Our new way of addressing social care pressures. 15 October 2024By LGC Contributor. A new commission will help rethink the approach to social care, writes the chair of Essex CC’s Caring Communities Commission. Care has always been the test case for the limits of the welfare state. How we treat those who need us most defines our ...
Government allocates £68m for councils to develop brownfield sites
6 小时之前 · The government announced today that £68m would be distributed to 54 councils to develop abandoned brownfield sites into new homes. Their announcement said this fund will enable councils to cover the costs of decontamination, clearing disused buildings, and improving infrastructure, facilitating the release of land to build 5,200 homes across the country.
Keith Onslow: A period of silence from LGPS pools would be most …
1 天前 · I was delighted to see William Bourne’s recent LGC article, and in particular his last paragraph requesting that the government speaks to the decision makers, namely LGPS funds, and not the pools, who have seemed to run their own agenda in the last couple of years – very often in contrast to their own shareholders.. The whole basis of both this and the previous governments’ reviews of ...
Overhaul of inspections planned at CQC
6 小时之前 · The CQC has agreed to pause ICS inspections for six months during its recovery efforts. But local authority assessments will continue with "ongoing improvements", such as making the "scoring of evidence more transparent". Related questions you can explore with Ask LGC, our new AI search engine. If you would like to ask your own question you ...
Council chiefs warn of ‘repugnant cuts to services’
17 小时之前 · Solace president Matt Prosser said: “The current fiscal outlook means councils are being forced to continue making increasingly repugnant cuts to services often in the knowledge that they are only storing up even greater problems for the future. "Inadequate funding for local government is the ultimate false economy – we are already seeing ...
Planning staff shortages risk ‘thwarting’ housebuilding goals
6 小时之前 · Research by the District Councils’ Network (DCN) has found that more than four in five districts (84%) are experiencing recruitment and retention difficulties in their planning service. In addition to meeting housing targets, the DCN said it also had concerns that the shortage of planning expertise could lead to “suboptimal” developments ...
Labour HQ intervenes at met after resignations
1 天前 · Labour's National Executive Committee has stepped in at Tameside MBC after the chief executive and senior politicians quit last week. Local MPs in Tameside deputy prime minister Angela Rayner (Lab), social care minister Andrew Gwynne (Lab) and business secretary Jonathan Reynolds "welcomed" the resignation of chief executive Sandra Stewart last week.
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DLUHC renamed to drop ‘levelling up’ - Local Government …
2024年7月9日 · The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has been renamed as the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), removing what the new government described as a “slogan” from the previous administration. Between 2018 and 2021, the department had been known as MHCLG until Boris Johnson renamed it DLUHC in September ...