Hampshire County Council has been fined £100,000 after social care files containing sensitive data about adults and children were discovered in a former council building.

Liverpool City Council is considering plans to limit the number of fast food takeaways in the region, in a bid to reduce the number of people becoming obese.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has advised that councils should be more involved in the process of assessing the needs of child migrants in Calais before they arrive in the UK.

To become more inclusive Oxford City Council has approved plans to add the gender neutral title ‘Mx’ to its official forms.
Following a recommendation by the council’s Equality and Diversity Review Group, which explored how the council can become more diverse and inclusive, the new title will be included, where possible, alongside the titles of Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms.

Cornwall Council has warned that it could still lose out on ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ in the event of a Brexit, despite assurances.

HMRC has revealed that small businesses and the self-employed will be exempt from new plans to make tax reporting digital.

Cambridge County Council has launched a six week consultation to help develop a healthy weight strategy, after figures showed one in five residents were obese.

The new Nottingham Express Transit will further benefit local businesses by offering super fast data.
Nottingham City Council has signed a multi-million pound 20-year concession agreement with ITS Technology Group which will see the city’s telecommunications ducting being used to connect local businesses to superfast broadband.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has outlined plans to extend public ownership of the UK’s bus networks if he becomes the next Prime Minister.
As part of this pledge Corbyn, who is being challenged by Owen Smith for the Labour leadership, will offer councils new franchising powers and allow them to set up local bus companies.
Promising to expand bus services to areas not currently covered, the Labour leader plans to give councils franchising powers over their bus networks, and to allow them to set up ‘municipal bus companies’.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has claimed that the government’s pledge to replace EU funding has fallen short of the full figure.