Highland Council has published a proposal to accommodate families of Syrian refugees in Kinlochleven in Lochaber.
The Department of Health (DH) has awarded local authorities with a share of a £25 million housing and technology fund for people with learning disabilities.
133 jobs are at risk at Salford City Council, as the authority prepares to make £15.8 million in savings in 2017/18.
Official statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has shown that the rate of household recycling has fallen to 44.3 per cent from 44.9 per cent in 2015.
Doncaster City Council has been granted permission to issue an eviction to homeless protesters living in a ‘tent city’ in the region.
East Dunbartonshire Council has been told by the Accounts Commission that it must ‘up its games’ after an audit highlighted concerns over the council's ability to make necessary savings.
The Health Select Committee has raised concern over the high number of people in England taking their own lives, warning the figure was ‘unacceptably high’.
The government's failure to develop ‘credible’ plans to improve child protection is leaving children ‘at risk of harm’, a report claims.
Figures show that the level of household waste which is recycled in the UK has fallen for the first time.
A freedom of information request has revealed that 63 out of 140 responding councils have cut meals on wheels services since 2010.
Councils will be allowed to increase council tax by six per cent over the next two years in order to fund social care services.
Major relationship support providers may not be sufficiently reaching families in or at risk of poverty, a new report claims.