{"id":48319,"date":"2026-10-13T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48319"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:37:27","slug":"strengthening-local-building-control-capacity-capability-and-financial-sustainability-in-england-a-letter-from-the-government-to-la-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48319","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strengthening local building control capacity, capability and financial sustainability\u2019 in England \u2013 a Letter from the government to LA CEs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government support to strengthen local building control capacity, capability and financial sustainability through funding, reform and digital work is outlined in a letter to Local Authority (LA) Chief Executives (CEs) in England (District\/Borough, Metropolitan Borough and Unitary Authorities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter sets out the government\u2019s commitment following the announcement of the \u00a370 million of funding to address shortages in building safety professions to strengthening a more resilient, capable and sustainable building control sector. It highlights funded workforce support, charging reform and digital work to improve capacity, financial sustainability and transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/strengthening-local-building-control-capacity-capability-and-financial-sustainability\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the letter at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/strengthening-local-building-control-capacity-capability-and-financial-sustainability\/strengthening-local-building-control-capacity-capability-and-financial-sustainability\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government support to strengthen local building control capacity, capability and financial sustainability through funding, reform and digital work is outlined in a letter to Local Authority (LA) Chief Executives (CEs) in England (District\/Borough, Metropolitan Borough and Unitary Authorities).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,1049,261],"class_list":["post-48319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-building","tag-building-control","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48320,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48319\/revisions\/48320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}