Councils will have access to a share of £54.1 billion in funding for the coming financial year, including more than £1 billion for social care.

Motorists are set to benefit from a government crackdown on rogue parking firms which will see fines slashed and a clearer appeals system created.

Newcastle City Council has submitted a bid to the European Commission for the city to become one of its 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030.

The TUC has warned that millions of low-income workers face a ‘perfect storm’ this April with Universal Credit falling behind the cost of living.

Transport for New Homes has found that housing developments on former farmland are adding hundreds of thousands of extra car journeys to England’s roads.

The Children’s Commissioner for England has claimed that children’s access to specialist NHS mental health services remains ‘a postcode lottery’.

The Public Campaign for the Arts has found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services has halved across England since 2009-10.

Thousands more jobseekers can now access tailored face-to-face job support and meet local employers as 150 new jobcentres are opened.
Towns and cities from Falkirk to Torquay are now home to over 150 new temporary jobcentres and over 150 Youth Hubs, with more to follow, as the government pledges to get 500,000 people a job by the end of June.

The number of children with mental health problems seen by social workers has surged by a quarter since before the coronavirus pandemic.

Rishi Sunak has announced that millions of households will receive £350 of government support to help protect them from rising energy costs.