Articles by Emily Twinch
English councils could spend £17bn on care for working age adults by 2030, says report
By Emily Twinch | 11 November 2024
Councils in England may have to spend £17bn on working age adults and those with a life-long disa...
Call to fully fund National Living Wage rise to keep care 'afloat'
By Dan Peters | 06 November 2024
Adult social care directors have called on the Government to fully fund the increases in National...
Website of latest council to be hit by cyber attack working again
By Emily Twinch | 04 November 2024
Portsmouth City Council’s website is working as normal again today after it became the latest of ...
Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS
By Emily Twinch | 23 October 2024
Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% ...
Rayner to be handed £1bn for council housing in Budget, reports suggest
By Emily Twinch | 21 October 2024
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will be handed £1bn in next week’s Budget as she plans to dou...
London Councils calls for housing allowance increase
By Emily Twinch | 17 October 2024
London Councils is urging ministers to update housing allowance rates annually to provide better ...
Auditors for Redditch and Bromsgrove quit
By Emily Twinch | 15 October 2024
Ernst & Young have taken on auditing Redditch BC and Bromsgrove DC's accounts mid-financial year ...
Councils join project to explore preventative spending
By Emily Twinch | 14 October 2024
Four councils have joined a two-year project aimed at coming up with a methodology for calculatin...
LGPS pooling 'must be done in orderly way'
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
The pooling of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets into eight organisations should be d...
Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...
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