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LGA: Devolve National Citizen Service funding to local youth services

“Youth services have a vital role to play in providing young people with safe spaces to go and trusted relationships with adults who can help them make positive life choices and avoid being drawn into negative situations during and after the pandemic."

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LGA: Digital Health Check ‘not a replacement’ to in-person appointments

Making more digital health checks available is a useful tool to detect certain illnesses but it should be treated as an addition to not a replacement of a physical health check

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LGA: Don’t take transport powers away from councils

It is councils - who know their communities best - that should be trusted to make local transport decisions not Whitehall.

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LGA: Eight in 10 councils forced to overspend on children’s social care budgets amid soaring demand

More than eight in 10 councils in England responsible for children’s social care overspent in the year to 2019/20. This comes despite councils increasing their budgets by £535 million that year and by £1.1 billion in the past two years.

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LGA: Extend incentives for new apprenticeships beyond the end of furlough scheme

"To ensure people can get access to apprenticeships when they are needed the most, it is vitally important that the incentive scheme is extended"

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LGA: Extend outbreak funding as part of Plan B to protect local contact tracing support

Councils across the country continue to lead the local fight against the pandemic. However, the Government’s Contain Outbreak Management Fund is set to end in March 2022, which poses a threat to councils' ability to ramp-up efforts in response to the Omicron variant.

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LGA: Failure to act on social care in Queen’s Speech will be ‘bitter blow’, say councils

"All of us in local government, across the political divide, want to see the Queen’s Speech finally set out the plans we have been waiting for and make good on the Prime Minister’s promise to ‘fix social care’, once and for all."

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LGA: Fire and rescue services have a key role to play in responding to the climate change emergency

A new report for fire and rescue services to help them respond to the climate emergency at a local level has been published by the Local Government Association today.

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LGA: Free up routes to help people re-join the jobs market

Nearly nine million people who are economically inactive risk being left out of the labour market for even longer due to a complex patchwork of disconnected national schemes.

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LGA: Funding for almost 10 million pothole repairs this year lost from council budgets

Over 9.5 million potholes could be repaired or prevented by councils with the funding lost from local road maintenance budgets this year – the equivalent of 64,000 repairs in every local council area.

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