Articles by Emily Twinch
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...
Mayors can relieve council pressures, says report
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
Mayoral combined authorities (MCAs) can help with long-standing policy challenges in public servi...
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
Investment and growth focus for first Council of the Nations and Regions meeting
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
A partnership group bringing together regional mayors and national leaders will focus on investme...
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