The country is facing important local elections in May this year, and there is a growing movement among Labour councillors who see this as an opportunity to illustrate the cost of Brexit, which OBR forecasts suggest is already running at # 72bn, versus the 40 % cuts
in local authority funding which are starting to bite close to home in areas like education, health social care, transport and children's services.
Although today's announcement does not include additional funding, it is understood officials hope clarity on spending — particularly the allocation
of local authority funding for 2019 - 20, several years ahead of time — will help schools and councils plan ahead.
The report finds that
Local authority funding for buses in rural areas has fallen by 25 per cent in the past four years, while around half of people in smaller villages do not have access to any public transport.
all early years providers in the maintained, private, voluntary and independent sectors that are funded by the local authority
However, councillor Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, argued: «This is in a climate
where local authority funding suffered major cuts during the last Parliament, and while councils have made tough choices in order to protect children's services, the system is under significant strain.
The government needs to show leadership by
helping local authorities fund and deliver better cycling and walking infrastructure so that every child is able to travel on foot or by bike to school in safety and with confidence.
The funding differences are even more stark: if a new school is opening under the free school programme the capital funding comes from the generous free school budget but if a local authority is opening a new school, the funding must come from either
general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the shortage of school places.
Government cuts to
local authority funding mean a significant reduction in the support available to schools, while the changes to the high needs funding system do not take account of the value that local authority support can add.
The Manchester deal - makers have real achievements to their credit, but these do not signal a decentralisation of power or resources; they derive more from the shrewdness with which a small group around Howard Bernstein and Richard Leese (respectively Chief Executive and Leader of Manchester City Council) have played the game of extracting resources from a Treasury that manages what is just about the most centralised system
of local authority funding in Western Europe.
This funding arrangement works as long as each council assumes reciprocity -
the local authority funds a local refuge which will mostly be used by women from other areas but its own residents will be able to seek safety in refuges funded by other councils.
[34] In April 2011, Thornberry surveyed all the Local Government Directors of Adult Social Care and highlighted the pressures on care for the elderly by the coalition government's cuts to
Local Authority funds.
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid MP, is due to publish the Government's long awaited review of
local authority funding to consider the way the formula is calculated and how, if at all, it should change.
Commenting on the report by the Local Government Association warning of a # 1 billion shortfall in funding for new school places, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «Once again we see the stark reality of the Coalition Government's savage cuts to
local authority funding.
The coalition has already set out # 6bn cuts for the current financial year, including the scrapping of the child trust fund and reductions in quango and
local authority funding.
Section 106 monies can be ring fenced and supplemented by
both local authority funding and EFA grant to deliver new school buildings.
Cuts to
local authority funding have undermined the support and services local authorities provide for early years education.
«Given the parlous state of school and
local authority funding, central government needs to make funds available to ensure schools are safe places for our children and their teachers — it should not be a choice between books in the classroom and the safety of the school population.
I am also confirming that, for 2017 to 2018, we will retain the current minimum funding guarantee for schools, so that no school can face a funding reduction of more than 1.5 % per pupil next year in what it receives through
the local authority funding formula.
She added: «I am also confirming that, for 2017 - 18, we will retain the current minimum funding guarantee for schools, so that no school can face a funding reduction of more than 1.5 per cent per pupil next year in what it receives through
the local authority funding formula.
Greening said the government will also retain the current minimum funding guarantee for schools — meaning no school can face a «funding reduction of more than 1.5 per cent per pupil next year in what it received through
the local authority funding formula».
The Blue Cross is not government or
local authority funded, but relies on money raised through donations, legacies and other fundraising activities.
The first casualties of the scope changes have been the law centres who suffered simultaneous cuts both to legal aid and
local authority funding.
In particular, Stuart is often instructed in relation to Insolvency (both Personal & Corporate) and general Contractual disputes (including care home charges and
local authority funding).
«Already law centres have lost or are about to lose in this financial year 53 % of
their local authority funding,» comments Julie Bishop of the LCF.
The pupil premium and children adopted from care in
local authority funded alternative provision From April 2015, all children in local authority funded alternative provision (AP), who have been adopted from care or who left care under a special guardianship order or residence / child arrangements order, will also attract the Pupil Premium Plus, currently worth # 1,900 per pupil.