The LGA green paper for adult social care and wellbeing
Adult social care and support matters to everyone in the country
but decades of failures to find a sustainable solution to how to pay for
services, and the Government’s recent decision to delay its long-awaited green
paper on the issue until the autumn, has prompted council leaders to take
action. The knock on effect of increased pressure on adult social care services
– of which the spend for some councils accounts for over half of their core
spending power– impacts on many of the services that keep our communities
running in councils across the country.
Today we have published our green paper for adult social care
and wellbeing ‘The lives we want to lead’ and launched a nationwide
consultation to kick-start a desperately-needed debate on how to pay for adult
social care and rescue the services caring for older and disabled people from
collapse.
Adult social care funding
LGA research shows that nine in ten (89 per cent) of councils say national taxation must be part of the
solution to securing the long-term financial stability of adult social care.
LGA Resident Satisfaction Polling - June 2018
This report
outlines the twentieth set of results in a series of LGA public polls on resident
satisfaction with local councils, conducted every four months. The results of the
latest round of national
residents’ satisfaction polling show the lowest levels of resident
satisfaction since polling started six years ago and a downward trend. LGA
will be using these results as part of their campaigning work ahead of the
Comprehensive Spending Review to highlight to central government the impact of
funding reductions to local government.
Datashare
DataShare is an open data platform, developed
originally by London Borough of Redbridge, which authorities can use to publish
their data openly in line with the Transparency Code. In recent weeks Redbridge, the LGA and its open data
technology partner, Porism, have opened up this powerful resource for free to
use, open source access. This offers an inexpensive, reliable and sustainable
solution to data management and open publishing obligations within local
government.
Demographics report 2017, England
This demographics report provides
an overview of the mid-year for England for 2017 taken from the
Mid-Year Population Estimates published by the ONS. Data in this report is
updated annually in June of each year.
In 2017 the total population
of England was 55,619,430 people, an increase from
55,268,076 in 2016. In 2017 International Migration Net accounted for
210,570 people of the overall change followed by Natural change which
accounted for 156,763 people. Of the 55,619,430 people in England, 21.3 percent
(11,866,957) are children aged under 18, 60.6 percent (33,721,962) are adults
aged 18 to 64 and 18.0 percent (10,030,511) are aged 65 and over; 2.4 percent
(1,352,056) of the resident population are 85 and over.
Metrics added to LG Inform this month include:
Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions from
Schools in England – 2016/17
In England
in 2016/17 there were 0.1 per cent permanent exclusions from school as a
proportion of the school population. There has been an increase from 0.08 per
cent in 2015/16 and 0.07 per cent in 2014/15. This is the number of permanent
exclusions at state-funded primary, secondary and special schools expressed as
a percentage of the number (headcount) of pupils (including sole or dual main
registrations and boarding pupils). A permanent exclusion refers to a pupil who
is excluded and their name removed from the school register. Such a pupil would
then be educated at another school or via some other form of provision.
Insolvency statistics: individual insolvencies
by region – 2017, England
In
England in 2017 there were 93,165 individual insolvencies, an increase of 8,638
from 2016 when there were 84,527 individual insolvencies. This is the sum of
total individual insolvencies, bankruptcies, debt relief orders (DROs) and
individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs) In England.
Police recorded crime in England - Year ending
March 2018
Police Recorded crimes in England were 82.22
per 1000 people in the year ending March 2018. The north east had the largest number of police recorded crimes per
1,000 people for this period at 102.63, this was followed by Yorkshire and
Humberside that had 97.41 per 1,000. England had 3,969,080 victim based crimes
recorded in the year ending March 2018 and 604,018 other crimes were
recorded. Other theft (500,024) was the
largest type of victim based crime recorded, this was followed by violence
against the person – with injury (481,889). The largest number of other crimes was recorded in public order offences
(355,030).
The July 2018 Statistical Alert is now available.
A minimum income standard for the UK 2008 -2018: continuity and change
This update of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)
Minimum Income Standard (MIS) presents new research on what working-age adults
and pensioners say is needed for an acceptable living standard, and looks back
at 10 years of MIS research.
The public and the NHS: what’s the deal
The King’s Fund has been
exploring how the public views its relationship with the NHS. In March 2018, in
partnership with Ipsos MORI, the King’s Fund carried out three ‘deliberative
workshops’ to explore this issue and this report provides the results.
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