There is a ‘golden opportunity’ to lead the levelling up agenda and fundamentally ‘rethink’ the role councils play in the wake of the pandemic.
The Social Mobility Commission has called for a shake-up of child welfare benefits and significant investment in education.
Oxford City Council’s cabinet will be asked to approve the commissioning of an electric vehicle strategy for the city.
A planned Clean Air Zone to cut harmful traffic emissions and improve air quality in Newcastle could be put in place next summer.
The government has launched a new multi-million pound strategy to speed up diagnosis and improve support and care for autistic people.
The creation of a new Community Forest to bring people closer to nature in the North East has been announced.
A new strategy on how Birmingham City Council will secure the right to host major sporting events in the next decade has been published.
MPs have called for more government funding for a scheme to quickly house long-term homeless people in England.
England's chief medical officer has said that a new national strategy is needed to tackle poor health and lower life expectancy in seaside towns.
Beautiful, environmentally sustainable communities are at the centre of widespread planning changes announced by Robert Jenrick.
Coram Family and Childcare has warned that British parents face a ‘double squeeze’ of expensive childcare costs and patchy availability this summer.
Councils are conducting ‘mass profiling’ and ‘citizen scoring’ of welfare and social care recipients to predict fraud and rent non-payments.