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WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Full dispersal asylum targets still in draft
By Dan Peters | 10 June 2024
Ministers have not signed off the Government’s 2024 targets for identifying an extra 100,000 beds...
FINANCE
Lib Dem bid to fix care and end council funding crisis
By Emily Twinch | 10 June 2024
The Lib Dems have pledged multi-year settlements and a cross-party solution for social care to he...
HOUSING
Labour pledges to 'fix our broken housing market'
By William Eichler | 07 June 2024
Labour would bring back council house-building targets and hire new officers to deal with the bac...
FINANCE
Quarter of councils spending 5% of budgets on temporary accommodation
By William Eichler | 05 June 2024
One in four councils in England spent 5% of their core budgets on temporary accommodation in 2022...
HOUSING
Working in partnership to help households stay warm and well
29 May 2024
Groundwork Green Doctors and the Green Doctor Academy are committed to offering practical and beh...
WHITEHALL
Government digs in over asylum housing target
By Mark Conrad | 29 May 2024
The Home Office has doubled down on council concerns over asylum targets and insisted its Full Di...
PLANNING
Labour set to build like it's 1945
By Paul Marinko | 28 May 2024
As the General Election race kicks into gear, Labour hopes its new towns policy will prove the so...
WELFARE
Knitting the net to tackle hardship
By More recently the Household Support Fund (HSF) has played a crucial role in bolstering this provision. But the HSF is now due to end in September. This is deeply short-sighted. As the National Audit Office has shown, local welfare assistance generates savings for other parts of local and national government by preventing crises spiralling. | 28 May 2024
Speaker at New Local's upcoming Stronger Things 2024 Katie Schmuecker argues councils are key to ...
HOUSING
A design for living
By Sally Dickinson | 28 May 2024
Sally Dickinson explains how the Berkeley Foundation is working with its charity partner and loca...
WHITEHALL
General Election: Pay transparency legislation falls
By Martin Ford | 28 May 2024
Key council-related legislation – including fresh transparency over senior pay – failed to make i...
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