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Councils will miss their climate change targets unless they are given longer term funding, easier to access specific funding pots, and more devolved powers, the Local Government Association has warned.
To date 230 councils in the UK have declared a climate emergency but their efforts are being hamstrung by difficulties with monitoring and implementing their policies, the LGA says. As LGC has previously reported many of these councils have set targets...

Poorly-paid social care staff are more of a priority for major investment than nursing students, the chair of NHS Improvement has told a major nursing conference.
However, Baroness Dido Harding, who is leading work on the NHS People Plan, said there was a need to look at the financial support available to mature students to enable them to study nursing, Jo Stephenson of LGC sister title Nursing Times reports....

This episode was recorded at the LGC Investment and Pensions Summit, which was held at Celtic Manor in South Wales on 5 and 6 September 2019.
Dawn Turner, chief executive of Brunel Pension Partnership, and Jeff Houston, secretary to the LGPS Board, discuss key highlights from the event with LGC features editor Martin George....

Labour would create local public accounts committees in each council area that would be responsible for scrutinising other public sector bodies, as well as the council itself.
The shadow communities secretary has revealed to LGC the plans, which he hopes will lead to a move away from the “silo mentality” he claims exists in local government and across the public sector....