Following the Government’s announcement of a new legal duty to self-isolate with councils responsible for distributing financial support to low-income households to help, The Local Government Association has called for 'urgent clarity' about how councils will be reimbursed.

According to the Local Government Association, figures for 2018/19 show that 9 per cent of households in England – the equivalent of 2.17 million - do not have a working smoke alarm and only 26 per cent of people who own an alarm test it at least once a month.

The IFS is warning that schools serving more deprived pupils face major challenges over the next few years.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has become one of 12 founder members of the new Inclusive Growth Network.

A new adult social care winter plan has been revealed which aims to curb the spread of coronavirus infections in care settings.

Labour is calling on the government to extend the evictions ban due to end on 20 September to avoid a homelessness crisis this winter.
The ban was extended in August, after which Shadow Housing Secretary Thangam Debbonaire wrote to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick urging him to use the short Parliamentary time available to bring legislation to protect renters, and keep his promise that ‘no renter who has lost income due to coronavirus will be forced out of their home’.

The CCN has outlined the themes it believes should be at the heart of reform the adult social care system in the wake coronavirus pandemic.

Investment of £1.2bn would improve more than 5,000km of roads and prevent more than 8,000 fatal and serious injuries over the next 20 years.

Boris Johnson has announced a £546 million funding package to help protect care homes from coronavirus this winter.

The government has announced that 274 councils are set to receive housing support for vulnerable people.