Councils are having to spend nearly 10 times on placing homeless households in bed and breakfasts because of a shortage of homes.

The Chancellor has announced he is planning to hold a Budget on Wednesday 6 November 2019, as the ‘first Budget after leaving the EU’.

A Labour government will address the ‘grotesque inequality and poverty’ that is blighting coastal communities as a result of Tory cuts.

Nicky Morgan has announced that innovative cultural projects, libraries, museums and creative industries will benefit from £250 million of new funding.

The LGA has claimed that vital adult social care services have helped save more than half a million bed days.

CIPFA has launched its Financial Management (FM) Code, to drive improvement in financial management for councils.

Steve Rotheram has said that he wants to see an ‘active travel revolution’ in the Liverpool City Region over the next ten years.

More school children across England will now learn essential cycling skills thanks to a £13 million government investment in Bikeability.

Official figures indicate that levels of severe obesity among children in the last year of primary school have hit an all-time high.

A significant proportion of all pupils experiencing an unexplained exit fail to return to the school system ever again.

Low-income voters could be a crucial force at the next election, partly due to being more willing to switch between parties.

The number of trees in Bath & North East Somerset could be doubled as part of the council’s commitment to tackle the climate emergency.

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