Councils gain COVID enforcement powers

23/10/2020

Councils are to be given new powers to issue businesses with improvement notices and close premises if they breach coronavirus restrictions.

Charity warns parents are struggling to cover school food costs

Charity blasts cost of 'shoddy and expensive' temporary accommodation

Survey reveals 'worrying picture' of children's mental health

Chancellor announces new support package for businesses

Politics and Policy

Councils gain COVID enforcement powers

Charity warns parents are struggling to cover school food costs

London council fines two rogue landlords £110,500

Capacity for 1.3 million homes on brownfield land, campaigners reveal

Human Resources

Lincoln best council for employing apprenticeships, list reveals

More than 110,000 job vacancies in social care, report finds

Public sector exit cap signed into law

City council poised to lose 617 posts due to COVID-19

Finance

Chancellor announces new support package for businesses

Charity blasts cost of 'shoddy and expensive' temporary accommodation

Jenrick announces allocations for £1bn council funding

Local children’s services struggling to support most vulnerable, charities warn

Transformation

Calls for collaboration to fill the ‘strategic planning void’

Foundation urges public bodies to use ‘collective intelligence techniques’

Government launches £3m supported housing pilot

Watchdog warns 2025 target for superfast broadband will be 'challenging'

Health and Social Care

Survey reveals 'worrying picture' of children's mental health

Council chiefs welcome proposed £7bn social care investment

Unpaid carers 'desperately worried' about further lockdowns, survey reveals

COVID 'magnifying' health and care inequalities

Public Property

Housing-with-care is 'critically low', report warns

Oldham Council buys shopping centre to 'kickstart' town centre recovery

Calls to invest £900m in ‘transitional supported housing’

Housebuilders call to raise threshold for affordable homes

Taking planning and building control to the cloud

Elena White explains how Isle of Anglesey County Council has been utilising the cloud to transform its planning and building control applications.

Maximising income from car parks

Ron Buck explores the different ways councils are making the most of their parking facilities as a means of driving revenue.

Most Popular News

Streamline local government under plans to save £30bn a year, think tank argues

Jenrick announces allocations for £1bn council funding

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Councils gain COVID enforcement powers

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Products

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This issue of Public Property examines how how flexible workspaces can lead the way in regeneration for local authorities, Why local authority intervention is key to successful urban regeneration schemes and if the Government’s challenge of embracing beauty is an opportunity for communities.

The March issue also takes a closer look at Blackburn with Darwen Council's first digital health hub to help people gain control over health and care services.