Local government; Queen's Speech 2019

This landing page provides a series of links for the Queen’s Speech debate on Tuesday 14 January, covering education and local government. It also provides a short briefing paper (full report below) on local government developments during the current Prime Minister’s term of office, including the Towns Fund, Future High Streets Fund, and the 2020-21 Local Government Finance Settlement.

• School Funding in England: FAQs, 18 December 2019
• Special Educational Needs: support in England, 17 December 2019
• Teacher recruitment and retention in England, 16 December 2019
• Off-rolling in English schools, 28 October 2019
• Relationships and Sex Education in Schools (England), 17 December 2019
• School uniform costs in England, 17 December 2019

• Level 4 and 5 education, 4 November 2019
• 16-19 education funding in England since 2010, 16 December 2019
• T Levels: Reforms to Technical Education, 16 December 2019
• Higher education funding in England, 16 December 2019
• The Post-18 Education Review (the Augar Review) recommendations, 4 May 2019
• Commons Library Insight Who should pay for tertiary education?

Local Government Association Queen's Speech: LGA responds to national skills fund announcement

Association of Colleges Queen's Speech - AoC responds

FENews, Government’s education funding announcement in the Queen’s Speech, 19 December 2019

Reviewing and reforming local government finance, 15 March 2019

• Written Statement on the provisional local government finance settlement by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government background policy paper, Future High Streets Fund
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Towns Fund Prospectus