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.

The government has been urged to turn the challenges of the pandemic into an opportunity to Britain’s high streets, communities and commercial centres.

Adult social care leaders have come together to offer a collective vision of what should be in a workforce strategy for the growing sector.

Councillors have approved proposals which will see Nottinghamshire County Council staff move to a hybrid model of working from October.
Part of the council’s efforts to work more efficiently after the pandemic, the Hybrid Working Strategy builds on work which took place before the coronavirus crisis, as part of its Smarter Working programme, and how it adapted to new ways of working during it.

Eddie Hughes has announced that vulnerable people in communities across England will be given extra support through the Changing Futures programme.

Published at a time of ‘seismic’ change for the UK towns, a new report has pointed to a strong, vibrant and successful future for northern towns.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has stressed that reforms are needed to ensure the sustainability of local government finances.

A further 50 schools are to benefit from new, modern, energy efficient school buildings as part of the Prime Minister’s ten-year rebuilding programme.