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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...
WHITEHALL
Council reaches agreement over controversial asylum site
By Mark Conrad | 28 May 2024
West Lindsey DC is celebrating a success in its campaign to protect a £300m regeneration project ...
HOUSING
The MJ Comment - Whitehall is expecting a magic trick over asylum seeker housing
By Paul Marinko | 22 May 2024
As our front page reveals, the Government is continuing to pile pressure on councils to house asy...
HOUSING
Nearly 190,000 social homes expected to be lost by 2040
By William Eichler | 22 May 2024
The controversial Right to Buy scheme is expected to reduce the dwindling social housing stock by...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Councils given 100,000 asylum housing target
By EXCLUSIVE by Mark Conrad | 21 May 2024
Councils have been told to identify an extra 100,000 bedspaces for asylum seekers this year amid ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The regeneration gap
By Jonathan Swain | 21 May 2024
As local and regional government colleagues gather in Leeds this week for UKREiiF 2024, Jonathan ...
HUMAN RESOURCES
A response to the housing challenge you can bank on
21 May 2024
Cairistine Foster-Cannan explains how the East of England Local Government Association’s Talent B...
HOUSING
Labour to outline plans for 'towns of the future'
By William Eichler | 21 May 2024
Labour is to provide more details today about their commitment to establish the next generation o...
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