04 December 2024
Today the Department for Education has announced £740m to create more places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within mainstream schools. The capital funds, which will be ...
28 November 2024
Today the government has published the local government finance policy statement for 2025/26, which sets out how it intends to distribute resources to councils next ...
Read more21 November 2024
Today IMPOWER and the County Councils Network have released a new report which spotlights the financial pressures local authorities’ home to school transport budgets, and ...
Read more18 November 2024
Today, the government have announced its intentions to undertake the biggest reforms in a generation to the provision of children’s social care in England. The ...
Read more18 November 2024
Yesterday, the government announced £1 billion government funding for bus services across England. This includes a new approach to allocating £670m of funding to support ...
Read more14 November 2024
Today the Department for Education has released the latest looked after children figures for England as of April this year. The figures show a slight ...
Read more13 November 2024
The County Councils Network's 2024 Annual Conference took place this week in Marlow in Buckinghamshire, as we welcomed hundreds of delegates, speakers, and partners to ...
Read more12 November 2024
A new report reveals that a third of vulnerable young people in council care last year had to be placed in accommodation miles from their ...
Read more11 November 2024
Today, the Chairman of the County Councils Network (CCN) has called on the government to ‘rethink’ its approach to distributing council funding next year, warning ...
Read more11 November 2024
Councils are today calling for the needs of hundreds of thousands of working age adults and life-long disabled people requiring social care not to be ...
Read more30 October 2024
Today the Chancellor has delivered her Autumn 2024 Budget, which included an additional £1.3bn for local government in 2025-26. This additional grant funding for ...
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