Socitm has reported that the public sector successfully embraced the development of digital practices in the face of the coronavirus pandemic last year.

Social care should remain being delivered by local authorities rather than giving increased control to the NHS or central government, says report.

Unpaid carers across the country who do not live with the people they care for can now benefit from free PPE through a new national scheme.

The majority of local councillors believe waste and recycling charges will have to be introduced to meet proposed standardised collections.

The Welsh Government has outlined its legal commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but is pushing to ‘get there sooner’.

There was a 29 per cent drop in the average number of days councils in the UK spent gritting roads between winter 2017/18 and winter 2019/20.

The public are being called upon to apply for rewarding short-term and long-term opportunities in the adult social care sector.

A government pledge to raise billions of pounds by selling off surplus public sector land and buildings has been exceeded.

Labour says that almost £2 billion of coronavirus spending has been spent on ‘crony’ contracts going to Conservative friends and donors.

The government has confirmed that cabinet ministers have been tasked to encourage their sectors to take up the offer of rapid workplace testing.
The government is working closely with organisations across different sectors that are vital to the running of our country and where employees cannot work from home during lockdown to sign up to rapid testing programmes that identify cases of coronavirus in employees who are not showing symptoms.