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Councils are working tirelessly to improve access to contraception and other sexual health services, including expanding online consultations, establishing dedicated women’s health hubs, and improving services for under-served communities.

“We want to work with the Government to ensure that schools are given the support they need over the immediate term, and this includes urgently placing a temporary pause on academy conversions during this time.

Tackling the harm caused by illegal drugs is complex and it is too soon yet to tell if the 2021 Drugs Strategy has been a success or not

Ensuring local services are as accessible as possible to everyone in their communities is important to councils

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

Following the General Election, Cllr Shaun Davies has stood down as LGA Chair after being elected as the new MP for Telford. Elected officers of the LGA Labour Group have unanimously nominated Cllr Louise Gittins as the new LGA Chair, replacing Cllr Davies with immediate effect.

“We are calling on the Government to build on this by using the Budget to adapt welfare reforms to protect families at risk of becoming homeless, and restore local housing allowance rates to cover at least the lowest third of market rents."

An unhealthy weight is not just a public health problem, it is everyone’s problem.

Cllr Simon Blackburn, Chairman of the LGA’s Safer and Stronger Communities Board, responds to announcement by Home Secretary Sajid Javid of a £200 million fund to help target young people at risk of starting a life of crime and violence.

“The proposals risk having an adverse impact on local roads, increasing traffic, and pumping out more carbon emissions and making air pollution worse. At the very least if the Government is to proceed, it should fully fund it in the Spending Review.”