The CQC has warned that an under pressure social care sector is ‘fragile’ heading into a second wave of coronavirus infections.

The 2025 target for faster gigabit coverage nationwide will be particularly difficult to achieve for the hardest to reach premises.

Reform has claimed that the next cyber security strategy must play a more active role in enforcing standards across the country.

Labour is urging the government to ditch Serco and let councils and local public health teams run contact tracing.

Cuts to early intervention funding in the past decade must be urgently reversed as councils prepare for a surge in demand for support for young people.

A new report has warned that moves to create supersize councils would result in local government ‘ceasing to exist’.
Led by two professors at De Montfort University, the Bigger is not better report follows accounts that a number of county councils want to abolish local district councils to create some of the single largest councils in the western world.

Leeds’ planned Clean Air Zone is no longer required thanks to businesses switching to cleaner vehicles faster than expected.

A total of 2,061 places have achieved the Green Flag Award this year, showcasing how much we value our local parks and green spaces.

End Child Poverty coalition says that child poverty has risen most sharply in parts of the Midlands and Northern towns and cities.