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Councils warn of acute pressures despite funding boost next year

Councils in urban and rural areas have raised concerns about ongoing pressures on services following changes to the draft settlement for 2025-26.

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Freedom Pass: cost of providing free travel to older Londoners 'to soar to £500m a year'

London Councils warns that cost of providing free travel concessions to pensioners is becoming ‘unsustainable’

Evening Standard

Lack of funding for special needs pupils is causing 'growing gap' in outcomes, London councils warn

Ministers have been urged to boost funding to allow schools to make decisions ‘with inclusion, rather than budgets, as their driving factor’

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Record 8.3m fines issued to motorists as London councils crack down on parking and LTN offences

10% increase in penalty notices handed out by TfL and capital’s 33 boroughs

Evening Standard

'Dire' London council finances must be 'Budget priority' as several boroughs near bankruptcy

London Councils are facing a £700million blackhole driven by skyrocketing homelessness

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rachel Reeves must not forget London's homelessness crisis

For millions of people, the capital is simply home. Yet for an ever-increasing number of Londoners, it is one without a place to live. A report by London Councils lays bare the crisis on our doorsteps, with more than 183,000 Londoners estimated to be homeless and living in temporary accommodation.…

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HGV firms given more time to fit 'blind spot' safety kits to lorries despite cyclist concerns

About 216,000 lorries need upgrades to meet TfL’s new safety standards

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'Utterly unsustainable': London councils spend £4million a day on housing homeless driving some to bankruptcy

Total average temporary accommodation bill for the capital’s councils was £114million each month in the year to April - a 68% rise

Evening Standard

London e-scooter restrictions eased to reduce injuries caused by 'clipping'

TfL and borough councils have been working on ‘a revised approach’ to managing e-scooters, by reducing the use of geofencing

Evening Standard

Just one in 20 rental homes in London are affordable to low-income households, new research reveals

The analysis also found the capital's rental sector has shrunk significantly

Evening Standard

One in 85 London homes listed on holiday let websites as MP warns of capital being 'hollowed out'

London Councils estimates that one in every 85 homes in the capital are currently available for short-term let and are subject to ‘virtually no regulation’

Evening Standard

London borough U-turns on plan to send homeless over 90 minutes outside capital after public outcry

Tower Hamlets had proposed housing families far outside London and the home counties

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London council rents out entire four-star hotel for a year to house homeless as crisis deepens in capital

London Councils warned that there is an ‘urgent need for a new approach’ to tackling homelessness

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New holiday lets rules may 'worsen housing crisis', says London Councils

London boroughs are said to be ‘extremely concerned about losing permanent housing stock’

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Freedom Pass 'in danger' if Government restricts council income from motoring fines, warn London boroughs

Money from parking tickets and fines is used to subsidise £292m cost of providing free travel for older and disabled Londoners

Evening Standard

London faces more school closures and mergers as birth rate falls

Demands for places falls amid fears over birth rate

The Guardian - UK

London secondary school applications down by 4,000 after fall in birthrate

Eight in 10 nationally get first choice of school while capital’s falling numbers are likely to squeeze budgets

Evening Standard

Rough sleeping in London up by a third as capital faces 'homelessness emergency'

Councils warn policy of moving asylum seekers out of hostels is causing spike in rough sleeping numbers

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Councils on the brink: London authorities on edge of going broke warn services are at risk

We’re on financial cliff edge, say council leaders as cash crisis deepens

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London councils spending £90m each month on homeless accommodation

More than 175,000 Londoners are thought to be homeless and living in temporary accommodation

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London schools with falling pupil numbers converting to academies to avoid closure

Islington council has also been blocked from shutting a half empty “inadequate” school after it became an academy

The Guardian - UK

London schools may be mothballed as student numbers fall

Capital’s councils say they are struggling to keep schools open as pupil funding dries up

Evening Standard

London schools at risk of closure as families flee the capital, report warns

Drop in birth rate, Brexit, the pandemic and cost-of-living all to blame for the drop in demand for school places

The Guardian - UK

‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises

In central London, schools are closing as low and middle-income families are priced out. But some suburbs have more young people than they can afford. And the pattern is being repeated across the UK

The Guardian - UK

Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall

London boroughs among hardest hit due to falling birth rate and family struggles with Covid and rising costs

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