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Key priorities for government action include ensuring effective integration across NHS and local government; strengthening public health leadership; and eliminating service duplication and cost-shunting

LGA Chair Cllr Gittins' address to the LGA Annual Conference on 1 July 2025.

Joanna Killian's address to the LGA Annual Conference on 1 July 2025.

Today, the Government has announced a raft of measures to boost social housing. Responding, Cllr Adam Hug, Housing spokesperson for the LGA, said: “This is a meaningful step towards addressing the housing crisis we face and helping to deliver the social and affordable homes needed."

Councils across England could unleash £276 billion of untapped economic potential – equivalent to more than a 10th of national output – with government support to break down place-specific barriers to growth, according to new analysis released today.

“It is positive that the NHS 10-year plan sets out a clear and bold long-term vision for the future, and we fully support the focus on the three shifts – analogue to digital; treatment to prevention; and hospitals to community. 

LGA Chair Cllr Gittins' closing speech to the LGA Annual Conference on 3 July 2025.

"Councils want to ensure every child gets the best start in life"

The Deputy Prime Minister announced the launch of the new Council Housebuilding Support Service, a fully funded initiative to boost council-led housebuilding across England.

Temperatures in some parts of the country are set to peak at 32C over the next six days, and people are being urged to look out for their vulnerable and older family, friends and neighbours who are most at risk during the hot weather.