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Spring Statement: CCN responds

26 March 2025

Today the Chancellor has delivered the government's 2025 Spring Statement, which revealed that day to day spending will be reduced by £6.1bn by 2029-30 compared to what was originally ...

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New report spotlights the school transport challenge, and sets out how councils can improve services ahead of national reforms

21 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 ...

CCN welcomes proposed reforms to children’s social care

18 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 ...

CCN Response: Allocation of funding for Local Bus Services

18 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 ...

Latest looked after children government data: CCN responds

14 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 ...

Watch all the plenary sessions from CCN Conference 2024

13 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 ...

Thousands of young people were placed in council care more than 20 miles away from their home last year due to a lack of available alternatives

13 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 ...

CCN Conference: County Councils Network warn their authorities could miss out on hundreds of millions at the local government finance settlement, as CCN calls for ‘rethink’ on social care funding

11 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 ...

New analysis reveals two-thirds of social care commissioning budgets are spent on working age and disabled adults, as councils call for this ‘forgotten’ group not to be overlooked

11 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 ...

CCN Conference 2024 Live Stream

06 November 2024

Welcome to the live stream of the County Councils Network's Annual Conference 2024. The live stream of this year's event will be displayed below ...

Autumn Budget 2024: CCN Responds

30 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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