During a visit to the Calais refugee camp, councillors have said that ministers and party leaders need to improve their treatment of child refugees.

Despite hitting initial coverage rollout goals, fibre rollout in rural Scotland will be challenging, according to a new report by Audit Scotland.
The Digital Scotland project has completed its initial coverage rollout goal, but hitting the ultimate target of 95 per cent of homes and businesses in the country will be much more difficult, the group has warned.

Aberdeen City Council has agreed plans to set up arms-length energy company, which will manage all the local authority’s energy-related activity.

Oxford councils have published re-organisation reports in a bid to develop consensus about governance arrangements to support a devolution deal.

A select committee report has claimed that councils are sending away homeless people without any meaningful guidance.

Leading doctors and councils have labelled the government’s strategy to tackle childhood obesity in England as ‘weak’.
The government’s plan to reduce England’s rate of childhood obesity within the next 10 years includes plans for industry to cut the amount of sugar in food and drinks and calls for primary school children to eat more healthily and stay active.
This includes a voluntary target for manufacturers to cut sugar in children's food and drink by 20 per cent, and a drive for every primary school child to exercise for an hour a day.

North Lanarkshire Council has pledged to build 1,000 new homes, as part of the ‘biggest single investment in council houses for a generation’.
The council intends to build a total of 1,800 new homes over the next 10 years, with £159 million to be spent bringing the total number of council houses to be built in the programme to 2,150.
There are currently more than 12,000 people on the council's waiting list, second only to Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire.

According to a study by Prestige Nursing + Care, the annual cost of a care home for elderly people has risen to over £30,000 annually, increasing well above the rate of pensioner incomes.

A report by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has found that the number of adults visiting public libraries in England has fallen by almost a third in the last decade.