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20 Dec 2021
Local Government Finance: Provisional Settlement 2022/23
The Government published the provisional local government finance settlement for 2022-23 on 16 December 2021 A more detailed review of the proposals by the RSN’s…
20 Dec 2021
CPRE – Housing Crisis
The CPRE, (the Countryside Charity), have recently published… You often hear people talk about a housing crisis, and addressing it is something that we at…
20 Dec 2021
Why power cuts left people unable to phone for help
The BBC detail how power cuts caused by Storm Arwen have highlighted a potentially lethal problem in the home phone network’s digital transformation. Traditional landlines…
20 Dec 2021
EE to upgrade 4G in more than 2,000 rural UK areas by 2024
Computer Weekly reports UK mobile operator EE plans to upgrade its 4G infrastructure in more than 2,000 areas by June 2024 as part of the…
20 Dec 2021
YorBus rural transport scheme now has 450 users
Darlington and Stockton Times reports that the organisers of pioneering rural transport YorBus, trialling one of the country’s first on demand services, announced that there…
16 Dec 2021
2022-2023 Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement Announcement
2022-2023 Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement Announcement Thursday 16th December 2021 The Rural Services Network welcomes the 2022-2023 Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, announced today…
15 Dec 2021
RSN Economic Profiling Service – December 2021
The RSN Economic Profiling Service provides an analysis of Alternative Claimant Count with the December 2021 addition now being available. The analysis examines the ratio…
13 Dec 2021
Government pledges £150m for digitisation of adult social care
Healthcare IT News reports that the Government has announced a £150 million pledge to drive greater adoption of technology and achieve widespread digitisation across adult…
13 Dec 2021
Temporary on-farm campsites inject £25m into rural economy
Farming UK reports that temporary campsites set up on farms have given Britain’s rural economy a major boost, but many businesses fear that relaxed permitted…
06 Dec 2021
RSN Response to the Adult Social Care White Paper
In our initial response to the Social Care White Paper which we issued the day after the White Paper was published, the Rural Services Network…
