Local government workers on self-isolation exemption list

23/07/2021

Local government has been included on a list of sectors that may be allowed to ignore COVID self-isolation rules, the Government has confirmed today.

Waste crime could be costing the UK nearly a billion pounds a year

CMA warns about postcode lottery in electric vehicle charging

North and Midlands see greatest levels of smoking-related poverty

Five areas to pilot ways to improve access to education for Traveller pupils

Politics and Policy

Local government workers on self-isolation exemption list

CMA warns about postcode lottery in electric vehicle charging

Five areas to pilot ways to improve access to education for Traveller pupils

Empowering county councils ‘game-changer’ for levelling-up

Human Resources

County approves hybrid model of working for staff

Self-isolation payments 'failing' workers

Unions rejects 'insulting' council pay offer

Homes England invites council officers to join summer training programme

Finance

Waste crime could be costing the UK nearly a billion pounds a year

Chancellor facing 'difficult' spending review

MPs call for urgent council finance reforms

Small businesses took on five times more debt during pandemic

Transformation

Commission calls for funding re-set for local government

Councils in north east band together to plant 500 hectares of trees

MPs urge Government to scale up homelessness pilots

Councils ‘resistant’ to repurposing empty commercial space

Health and Social Care

North and Midlands see greatest levels of smoking-related poverty

New map reveals rates of hunger at local authority level

Over 39,000 care home residents die with COVID-19

Coastal towns have ‘worst health outcomes’, Whitty warns

Public Property

Second round of schools rebuilding programme announced

Scottish councils to receive £3.2bn housing grant

Right to Buy-back fund launched

Bill aimed at improving safety standards for high-rise buildings published

Decarbonising your housing stock with heat pumps

William Eichler reports from the recent Green Housing Forum webinar, looking at the funding available to local authorities to deliver low carbon homes.

Children's social care review reveals system in urgent need of reform

Jo Porter outlines how local authorities can maximise the chance of identifying the families that need assistance and provide the necessary support.

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