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Councils to receive £70m for temporary accommodation costs
24/11/2017 New changes to the Universal Credit system will prevent councils from losing more than £70m in the money they spend on providing temporary accommodation. |
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Budget 2017: Local leaders call for more powers to tackle housing crisis
23/11/2017 Council chiefs welcomed the Chancellor’s emphasis on housing in yesterday’s Budget, but warned more needs to be done to fix the broken housing market. |
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Budget 2017: Council chiefs warn against ‘devolution deadlock’
23/11/2017 Local government leaders today warned of the dangers of ‘devolution deadlock’ in their response to the Autumn Budget. |
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Budget 2017: Sector blasts lack of social care funding
23/11/2017 More older and disabled people will fail to get the help they need due to a lack of extra funding for social care in yesterday’s Budget announcement, sector experts have warned. |
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Leisure centres 'old and tired’ due to underfunding, council chiefs warn
30/10/2017 The Government will miss a chance to transform the nation’s health if it fails to inject new funding into leisure infrastructure, councils have warned. |
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Government urged to confirm social care funding is 'new money'
09/03/2017 The Government has been urged to confirm the £2bn social care funding announced in yesterday’s Budget is ‘new money’ and not taken from other local government allocations. |
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Budget 2017: Hammond accused of doing 'bare minimum' to fund social care
08/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond has promised additional grant funding of £2bn over the next three years in an attempt to plug England’s social care budget gap. |
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Budget 2017: New devolution deal for London
08/03/2017 Devolution to the capital was given a boost by the Budget, with new powers handed down to London by the Chancellor. |
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Budget 2017: Hammond announces £435m business rate package
08/03/2017 Local authorities will be able to access a £300m fund in order to ease business rate revaluation challenges in their local areas, chancellor Philip Hammond has announced. |
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Budget 2017: Funding for new wave of free schools
08/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond has today confirmed a £320m funding package to build 110 new free schools. |
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Budget 2017: £500m for infrastructure, technology and training
08/03/2017 The chancellor has announced more than £500m for infrastructure, technology and training to ‘start to close’ the productivity gap between Britain and its competitors. |
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Budget 2017: Councils to bid for £690m congestion fund
08/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a major local funding boost to tackle congestion in his first Budget, with a £690m competitive fund for English councils to get local networks moving. |
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Budget 2017: £2bn social care cash boost for councils
08/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond unveiled his final Spring Budget, offering a £2bn cash boost for social care in a bid to rescue councils from the care crisis. |
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Budget 2017: What should councils look out for?
07/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond has already dismissed announcing a ‘spending spree’ in his budget speech tomorrow, but what should local government watch out for? |
