Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
06/04/2017 - 10:14
Powys County Council has announced that plans to revise collection rounds for recycling and waste have been put on hold.
06/04/2017 - 10:04
Data collated via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request submitted by the Press Association has indicated that the chances of successfully challenging parking fines varies widely depending on where drivers get a ticket.
05/04/2017 - 10:08
A new Which? survey has found that 59 per cent of households (16 million people) across England experienced some kind of problem with their home internet connection in the last year.
04/04/2017 - 10:32
A report conducted by the House of Lords Select Committee has concluded that the government made a ‘substantial error’ in creating new committees for local authorities to deal with licensing.
04/04/2017 - 09:54
The cross-party Exiting the EU Committee has published a report warning that the government’s assertion that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’, is unsubstantiated.
03/04/2017 - 11:34
Sunderland City Council has completed the transfer of its children’s services to a new company, after it received an ‘inadequate’ rating by Ofsted back in July 2015.
31/03/2017 - 14:53
The Local Government Association (LGA) has advised that Brexit must lead to ‘new legislative freedoms and flexibilities’ for councils, in a response to the Great Repeal Bill.
29/03/2017 - 11:43
North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) has reached an agreement with CPG Investments Ltd to purchase the listed Silo building at Victoria Mill for a nominal sum of £1 to bring the listed building into public ownership.
29/03/2017 - 11:17
21 libraries in North Yorkshire are set to be run directly by volunteers after the local authority’s library service has seen its budget cut from £7.8 million in 2010 to £4.3 million in 2017/18.
29/03/2017 - 11:04
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed that full democratic accountability will be returned to Tower Hamlets Council.
28/03/2017 - 11:11
Westminster City Council and Kensington and Chelsea have announced they are serving their notice on the tri-borough arrangements, which aimed to drive savings and public service reform in three London boroughs.
28/03/2017 - 09:58
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a paper on its market study into digital comparison tools (DCTs), exploring the tools’ increasing use in helping people decide what to buy.
27/03/2017 - 11:35
The Welsh government has announced new proposals to make council webcasting of meetings compulsory.
24/03/2017 - 12:35
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has advised that the government can make substantial savings from buying common goods and services centrally, but that the results of the its latest attempt to do so have been ‘disappointing’.
24/03/2017 - 12:20
UK police data has revealed that English council elections attracted the most electoral fraud reports in 2016, twice as many as the EU referendum.
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