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We must not forget that it is individuals and communities who feel the impact, whether it is through seeing their local library or leisure centre close, roads deteriorate or support for young people, families and vulnerable adults scaled back.

"This reinforces the need for new and long-term significant funding for children’s services, which are fast approaching a tipping point and face a funding gap of £3 billion by 2025 just to keep services running at current levels."

Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, responds to research by ADCS highlighting increasing safeguarding pressures.

Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board, responds to the launch of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s Prevention Vision.

Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board, responds to Which? research on people underestimating the cost of paying for a care home place.

Councils continue to face huge uncertainty about how they will pay for local services into the next decade and beyond.

Only 15 per cent of adults say they are making plans for how they will pay for care they might need in the future.

Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, responds to survey by the Care and Support Alliance.

"Ensuring people are defined not by the services they receive but by the many factors that make them unique human beings must be at the heart of good social care and support."

"Homes for affordable and social rent are desperately needed across the country now, not in 2022, and the measures announced today fail to provide the funding certainty councils also need to play a leading role in solving our housing crisis."