A poll has found that the number of schools in England buying in professional mental health support for pupils has nearly doubled in three years.
In 2016, 36 per cent of schools surveyed by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) provided school-based support for students’ emotional and mental well-being. By 2019, 66 per cent of school leaders said they were commissioning their own professional support for pupils, including school-based counsellors.

Gavin Williamson has said that £24 million of government investment will drive up school standards in the North East.

Blackpool Council has said it will invest an extra £14 million in its troubled children’s services by axing up to 75 jobs.

Manchester City Council has passed a motion calling for the consideration of an Ultra Low Emissions Zone within the city’s Inner Relief Route.
Agreed by a meeting of all city councillors, the motion requests a feasibility study to be carried out, to understand how such a zone could work in practice, while also investigating the potential for the prohibition of through-traffic inside the Inner Ring Road.  

The 'speedy return' of the Environment Bill to Parliament is said to underline the government’s commitment to tackling climate change.

A family therapy service aimed at preventing youth crime has been launched in Redbridge, making it a UK first.

Swindon Borough Council has unanimously committed to going carbon neutral by 2030 as councillors step up the fight against climate change.
By taking a lead in the climate change movement, it is hoped that the council can inspire local businesses, residents and other organisations to take a similar approach in becoming carbon neutral by the end of the decade.

Hundreds of flooded households will not receive promised compensation funding because of an ‘obscene postcode lottery’.

Plans for spending in Portsmouth detail a proposed £37 million to be invested in environmentally friendly projects.

A new report says that reducing energy demand must be central to UK energy policy to cut carbon at the scale necessary.