Motivate people to exercise, councils are told, and save the economic system £1.2bn

Is there an inactivity pandemic?

Regional authorities have been urged to decrease physical inactivity by 1% a yr for 5 years – a move that could conserve the Uk economic system £1.2bn.

This comes soon after a new review showed hundreds of thousands of men and women are not working out routinely. A not-for-revenue health organisation looked at neighborhood authority data across England, obtaining that in boroughs exactly where individuals are not doing exercises routinely there is a increased degree of early death.

Poor boroughs bear the brunt of government cuts

Investigation shows that the poorest regions are bearing the brunt of regional government cuts as richer areas get much more income.

Poor boroughs in Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Manchester and London will lose 10 instances more from the government than a lot more affluent locations.

Councils in the most deprived locations encounter 25.3% cutbacks on average from the time period 2010-eleven to 2015-sixteen this can be in contrast to two.54% cuts in the least deprived regions. Labour mentioned data demonstrates that the government was hitting the poorest hardest.

The shadow local government secretary, Hilary Benn, said: “These figures are shocking. They present the direct influence of David Cameron and Eric Pickles’s unfair policies.”

Council of Europe says Uk benefit degree is ‘inadequate’

The Council of Europe in Strasbourg has mentioned the advantages paid in pensions, jobseeker’s allowance and incapacity benefit falls under 40% of the median cash flow of European states and is “manifestly inadquate”.

Ian Duncan Smith dismissed this as “lunacy” and stated the findings, in an annual evaluation of the UK’s adherence to the council’s European social charter, are just to be “taken into account” by British courts when assessing claims.

Report exhibits that councils could save £125m from welfare administration fees

A report by the Audit Commission shows that councils could minimize the quantity they invested on welfare payments by as significantly as £125m.

They found that regional authorities spent £827m administering the benefits on behalf of the Department for Operate and Pensions (DWP) in 2012-13. DWP gave £466m in direction of this price and councils were anticipated to fund £361m themselves.

Jeremy Newman explained: “Soon after taking into account the size of their caseload, the Audit Commission found there was a fantastic deal of variation in the amount councils spent. Greater-investing councils might be capable to carry their costs down.”

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Motivate people to exercise, councils are told, and save the economic system £1.2bn