Revaluating financing options
Caroline Daves considers if leasing be part of the solution for councils and schools as the PWLB interest rate rises.
Benefits cap to 'make many areas off-limits for larger families'
22/06/2015 Many parts of England will become too expensive for larger families on benefits when the benefit cap is lowered, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). |
Legal-high ban to bring new council powers
29/05/2015 A new ‘blanket ban’ on ‘legal highs’ will offer councils and police more powers to tackle psychoactive substances, the government has said. |
Top bodies call for mental health action
29/05/2015 Six of England’s leading health organisations have joined forces to call for mental care to become a national priority. |
Queen's speech 2015: Tougher laws on strike action
27/05/2015 The Conservatives have pledged to ‘protect essential public services against strikes’, using today’s Queen’s Speech to confirm it will set a tougher threshold for industrial action. |
Queen's Speech 2015: Metro mayors crucial in government's devolution offer
27/05/2015 The Government’s intention to only devolve further wide-ranging powers to cities with elected metro mayors has been confirmed in today’s Queen’s Speech. |
Queen's Speech 2015: Devolution, Right to Buy and welfare reform
27/05/2015 Proposals to ensure the devolution of cities and expand Right to Buy to social housing tenants were outlined in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech in nearly two decades today. |
Queen's Speech: Councils await devolution and housing vows
27/05/2015 Plans to give cities greater economic powers and a controversial extension of the Right to Buy scheme to 1.3 million social housing tenants will be among Bills set out today in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996. |
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
