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Support from Effective Energy Group for Local Authorities to Deliver £430m Sustainable Warmth Funded Energy Efficiency Projects. Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Councils will need 13,000 new social workers over next decade
2 天之前 · Councils in England will need to hire 13,000 more social workers over the next 10 years amid growing need for the care and support of young people, according to new research. If the Government does not invest in early intervention, 46,000 children and family social workers will be needed in 2034 ...
News - LocalGov
2024年11月21日 · Support from Effective Energy Group for Local Authorities to Deliver £430m Sustainable Warmth Funded Energy Efficiency Projects. Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Scottish councils face ‘catastrophic’ funding issues | LocalGov
2 天之前 · Seven in 10 local authorities in Scotland have warned they will be unable to pass a balanced budget within the next five years without widespread reform. New research from Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) Scotland found satisfaction with the Scottish Government is ‘alarmingly poor ...
Councils 'hamstrung' on net zero | LocalGov
2 天之前 · Image: Tirachard Kumtanom / Shutterstock.com. Ambitious local authorities striving to make their operations net zero by 2030 are being ‘hamstrung by a lack of long-term funding certainty and limited powers', a climate change expert has warned. Christopher Hammond, chief executive of UK100, a ...
The role of a local government councillor | LocalGov
2013年11月18日 · What does a local government councillor do? Councils are made up of members – called councillors - who together represent the people in their jurisdiction. Councillors are directly elected to represent the people and therefore have to consider not just the interests of their local electorate, but those throughout the whole area …
Pay - LocalGov
2024年10月15日 · The Government has issued a non-statutory Best Value notice to South Cambridgeshire District Council ‘following concerns about its trial of a four-day working week’. Local authority chief executives will receive a 3.5% salary increase backdated to the beginning of April after agreement was ...
Local Government Politics and Policy Updates | LocalGov
Michael Burton. Michael Burton has been writing and commenting on local government and the public sector for over 25 years as editor and since 2011 editorial director of The MJ plus its portfolio of associated local government titles including themj.co.uk, LocalGov and Surveyor.. He is the author of The Politics of Public Sector Reform from Thatcher to …
Analysis - LocalGov
2024年10月1日 · The Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) policy and external affairs manager, Laura Markus, discusses what the next government should do to tackle the housing crisis. Trussell Trust policy manager Beatrice Orchard and research officer Adrianne Clarke set out what the next government can do to end the ...
Ombudsman - LocalGov
2024年10月17日 · Council refuses to pay remedy to domestic abuse victim. 13/11/2024. Leicester City Council has refused part of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s recommendation to pay a homeless domestic abuse victim following a complaint.