Over a million children of key workers are currently living in poverty, with key worker families in the North East the hardest hit.

Leaders in Greater Manchester have unveiled an ambitious vision for new homes, enhanced natural assets and revitalised town centres.

The Public Accounts Committee has said that the government’s oversight of local government audit has become ‘increasingly complacent’.

Grant Shapps has announced a Transport decarbonisation plan to help the whole transport sector reach net zero by 2050.

The LGA has urged for a cross-government strategy for children and young people to ensure they are at the heart of the national recovery.

Chris Heaton-Harris has launched a new forum designed to coordinate the industry in helping those who are sleeping rough at stations.

A new report is calling for a new framework and funding to make assistive technology ‘mainstream’ in adult social care services.

The G7’s commitment to ‘Build Back a Better World’ should start with a pledge to build back safer to tackle deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a new plan to boost the capital’s supply of council homes through a new Right to Buy-back fund.
The fund will give boroughs the funds to purchase former council homes that have been sold into the private market through the government’s Right to Buy programme. Right to Buy gave council tenants who had lived in their house for more than three years the chance to buy their property at a price substantially below market rate. Since the Act’s introduction more than 300,000 London council homes have been sold.

Local leaders have called for more powers and resources to help decarbonise transport, tackle emissions and shape local energy markets.