Financial aid for uniforms has fallen by more than 70 per cent since 2010, with 80 per cent of local councils now offering no assistance.

More than twice as many children are waiting to be adopted as there are families willing to adopt.

Smaller venues will have to be found for any general election this year, as uncertainty over the possible date is hiking up costs for organisers.
Organisers are reporting that they are finding that their venues of choice have been booked out by pre-Christmas events, with the potential for smaller rooms meaning less room for workers and later declaration times than the 2017 election as a result.
The looming Christmas period is also having an effect on costs such as those for the rental of PA and staging equipment, which are also in demand for other events.

The Queen has outlined the legislative plans for year ahead, declaring her Queens Speech from the throne of House of Lords.
Her majesty began by saying that the government’s priority ‘has always been to secure the UK’s departure from the European Union on 31 October’, stressing that the government is seeking a new partnership with the EU, based on free trade.
Moving aside from Brexit, she said that an immigration bill, ending free movement, will be introduced.

The up-front cost of the Labour Party’s renationalisation proposals is estimated to be £196 billion.

The Homelessness Reduction Act has substantially increased the number of people seeking help from London Boroughs.

The CPRE has revealed that only one in 10 homes built on land released from the Green Belt over the past decade are ‘affordable’.

Councils are having to spend nearly 10 times on placing homeless households in bed and breakfasts because of a shortage of homes.

The Chancellor has announced he is planning to hold a Budget on Wednesday 6 November 2019, as the ‘first Budget after leaving the EU’.

A Labour government will address the ‘grotesque inequality and poverty’ that is blighting coastal communities as a result of Tory cuts.