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Consultation
Responses

Consultation
Responses

Consultation responses at your fingertips

Solace regularly draws on our members’ experience and expertise to respond to consultations run by government departments, Parliamentary Select Committees and third sector organisations on policy proposals and issues impacting on local government. Scroll down and click on the links to see all of our publicly available consultation submissions.

To contact Solace’s Policy Team send an email to policy@solace.org.uk.

Solace response to the Major Conditions Strategy

Solace has responded to the Government’s consultation on how to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the six major groups of health conditions that most affect the population in England. You can read Solace’s submission by clicking this link.

Solace submission to the Hewitt Review

The Hewitt Review is considering how the oversight and governance of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) can best enable them to succeed, balancing greater autonomy and robust accountability. Solace is committed to strengthening the ways in which local authorities and the NHS work together. It is only through genuine partnership working that we will be able […]

Solace response to the SEND review: right support, right place, right time

Solace welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care’s SEND Review: right support, right place, right time. To read our full response, please click the download button.

Solace response to House of Lords Public Services Committee workforce inquiry

Solace has submitted evidence to the House of Lords Public Services Committee’s inquiry in to ‘Designing a public services workforce fit for the future’. Click this link to read our submission.

Solace response to consultation on National Care Service

Solace welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on the National Care Service (NCS). To read our full response, please click the download button.

Response to Scottish Government’s consultation on a National Care Service by Solace, Executive Summary

Solace has prepared a substantive response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on a National Care Service, which is appended to this Executive Summary. This Executive Summary is designed to be an easily consumable representation of the key messages Solace wishes to share with the Scottish Government about its proposals.

Spending Review 2021: Solace submission

In Solace’s submission to the 2021 Spending Review, we set out three key asks: 1. Address as a matter of urgency the workforce crisis affecting the local public sector; 2. Invest significantly in social infrastructure, with a specific focus on prevention and early intervention initiatives; 3. Provide local government with a truly sustainable multi-year funding […]

Solace response to DHSC’s Transforming the Public Health Consultation

To have a strong public health system, which protects the public and improves people’s life chances, the whole system must be underpinned by a truly sustainable multi-year financial settlement for local government which allows councils to lead on population health and the NHS on treating illness.

Solace Response to the HCLG Committee Finance Inquiry

This submission is based on the views of Solace’s Policy Board, which consists of 26 serving local authority chief executives and senior managers.

Spending Review 2020: Solace submission

This Spending Review is crucial for the short and long-term future of this country as it responds to, and recovers from, the Coronavirus crisis, and prepares for its future outside the European Union. Ensuring local government is sustainably funded will be vital if the country is to successfully overcome these many challenges.

Solace Budget 2020 Submission

Solace has urged the Government to use the upcoming Budget and Spending Review to provide councils with a truly sustainable multi-year settlement and limit the amount of new funding it distributes through one-off pots. Click through to read the full submission.

Restricting Exit Payments in the Public Sector

Solace Consultation Response: Restricting Exit Payments in the Public Sector July 2019

Solace Wales – Restricting exit payments in the public sector: consultation on implementation of regulations

Solace (Wales) is opposed to these regulations and supports the call for Government to accept that these regulations should not be progressed further due to the unfair and negative impact this will have on the local government workforce and the sector’s ability to continue to effectively manage change down-sizing and restructuring within the sector.

Solace response to the Local Government Financial Settlement 17/18 Consultation

Written evidence submitted by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (Solace) in response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee’s Inquiry on the Productivity Plan

Download the response by clicking the link.

Productive Economy, Productive State

Submission on the 2015 Spending Review.

Productive Economy, Productive State: A Letter from Solace

Download the letter by clicking the link.

Solace response to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s consultation on the Government’s Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill

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Solace response to the consultation on a Public Sector Exit Payment Cap

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Solace joint response with ADCS and the LGA to the consultation on Joint Targeted Area Inspections

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Solace Elections and Democratic Renewal Network Board response to the ‘Representation of the People England & Wales Amendment No. 3 Regulations 2015’

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Solace response to the consultation on ‘Proposed Local Authorities Functions and Responsibilities England Regulations 2015’

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Solace response to the LGA ‘Taking Stock’ consultation on the future of sector-led improvement

To read the full response, click the download link.

Solace response to the consultation on Proposed Local Authorities Functions and Responsibilities England Regulations

To read our response, click the link.