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In its submission to the consultation on the 10-year plan for the health service, the LGA says that a standalone plan which prioritises and recognises the full value of adult social care is crucial to giving the Government’s ambitions for our NHS the best chance of success.

The Home Office has announced that it will temporarily extend the Move On period - the time between someone claiming asylum receiving a decision on the application and having to leave Home Office funded accommodation - from 28 days to 56.

"Councils are – and always will be – key to solving many of the national challenges highlighted by the Prime Minister today."

“In order to deliver more housing of a decent standard, councils need the right powers, skills, resources and funding to act and want to work with government and the development and housebuilding industry.”

Planning is about creating communities linked with the right economic activity and public services, whilst conserving and enhancing the natural and local environment. Local democratic discretion and flexibility need to remain important elements of the planning system.

A new report from the Local Government Association (LGA), SOLACE, and CIPFA calls for urgent reform of the local government funding system, highlighting that an outdated and complex funding model is hindering councils’ ability to plan effectively and meet the growing needs of their communities.

“We are pleased government is acting on a long-standing call by the LGA for councils to have and maintain Children Not in School registers.

“Extra funding for councils next year will help councils meet some - but not all - of the pressures they face in adult and children’s social care, homelessness prevention and support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities."

"We remain clear that local government reorganisation should be a matter for councils and local areas to decide."

The Government must go further with its reforms of Right to Buy (RTB) to give local authorities more flexibility and control over how the scheme operates locally amid rising demand to buy homes through the scheme since Autumn Budget discount changes, the Local Government Association says today.  With more than 123,000 households in temporary accommodation and more than 1.33 million households on a social housing waiting list, we are facing a chronic shortage of social housing. It has become increasingly impossible for local authorities to replace homes as quickly as they are being sold under