The blueprint for a new generation of multi-million Town Deals, which will regenerate town centres, has been revealed.

Councils will receive a funding boost to deliver free childcare places, enabling parents to work more flexibly.

Councils have been awarded more than £500,000 for projects exploring the use of digital technology to improve local public services.
In total, seven digital technology projects have received grants of up to £100,000 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Local Digital Fund. The projects will look at improving the efficiency of the planning system, predicting demand in children’s social care and enabling better information sharing to drive improvements in local services.

Climate change is set to influence the next election, with more than half Britons saying it will affect the way that they vote.

The West Midlands Combined Authority has teamed up with Google in the fight against climate change.

Politicians are readying themselves for a ‘once-in-a-generation’ General Election campaign after MPs voted for a 12 December poll.

The Children's Commissioner for Wales has said that young people should have been allowed to have their say in the upcoming General Election.
An amendment to lower the voting age was not voted on before MPs voted for a 12 December election date. However, Sally Holland, the Children's Commissioner for Wales, said that many teenagers would be ‘champing at the bit’ for a vote and expressed her disappointment that votes for 16 was not debated in the Commons.