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.
05/07/2023 - 16:59
Report suggests councils should have revenue support for their neighbourhood service provision combined with money currently allocated through capital pots into a single five-year 'placemaking budget'
07/02/2023 - 07:30
The final local government finance settlement (2023/24) has been set at £60 billion, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has confirmed.
02/02/2023 - 02:16
Capita Re staff in trading standards, environmental health, planning highways and other regulatory services will be transferred back in house on 1 April
01/02/2023 - 09:13
UK unemployment triples from 3.7 per cent to 12.1 per cent when including three million economically inactive people, according to Cities Outlook 2023 - the latest report from the Centre for Cities.
31/01/2023 - 08:53
Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that around a quarter of adults were struggling to stay warm in the last month.
30/01/2023 - 08:36
Announced in December, Levelling up Secretary Michael Gove has now signed a deal which has allocated £1.4 billion of funding over the next 30 years for the devolved North East
27/01/2023 - 09:50
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman complaints resolution investigation between London Borough of Ealing and the National Fostering Agency (NFA) highlights the need to check what you can and can't share.
27/01/2023 - 09:29
The work, which is expected to be carried out on hundreds of properties over the coming months, will be aimed at bringing poor quality homes up to the Government’s ‘Decent Homes Standard’.
25/11/2022 - 09:30
Local government has paid tribute to Professor John Stewart, one of the most influential local government academics of the 20th century, after he died peacefully at home on Wednesday.
22/11/2022 - 08:35
Research commissioned by the County Councils Network (CCN) showed that the per-capita ratio of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in England’
13/07/2022 - 23:54
Government plans to enforce the Building Safety Act have become slightly clearer as the current Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark announced that contracts to turn the Building Safety Pledge into legally binding requirements have been sent to major housebuilders
13/07/2022 - 10:54
Disjointed nature of national funding schemes makes it difficult to join up provision for learners, unemployed people, career changers and businesses, says Association
31/05/2022 - 07:51
Clear framework for delivery, coherent policy and appropriate long-term funding all required to meet net zero targets says ADEPT
20/05/2022 - 07:31
Falkland Islands capital Stanley is the first Overseas Territory to win the civic honour
17/05/2022 - 07:54
Work Local – Unlocking talent to level up sets out ways Government could improve its approach to matching jobseekers with vacancies
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A new study from Uswitch has revealed that the UK is the second-highest contributor to E-waste in the world, behind only Norway, generating 36,681 tonnes of household waste electrical and electronic equipment in 2021 – a 15% increase compared to 2020
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