CCN in the press: November 2017

CCN was featured in the national and trade press over 100 times in a busy November. Stories ranged from the launch of the Localis and ResPublica reports, which CCN supported, to the network’s fair funding advocacy, and responses to the Industrial Strategy and the Budget.

The Daily Mail: England’s poorest towns are set to be hit by robot revolution, report warns

The Metro: Could this be the end of borough and district councils?

Conservative Home: Localism is key to solving the social care crisis

Yorkshire Post: Taxpayers in rural Yorkshire hundreds of pounds a year worse off due to council funding ‘lottery’

The Guardian: Older people pay £34,000 a year to go into a care home

LGC: Devo framework to provide ‘clarity and consistency’

Room 151: Social care councils draw billions from reserves

The MJ: Why we need new forms of local government in two-tier areas

The Planner: Industrial Strategy: Reaction