Nicky Morgan has announced that innovative cultural projects, libraries, museums and creative industries will benefit from £250 million of new funding.

The LGA has claimed that vital adult social care services have helped save more than half a million bed days.

CIPFA has launched its Financial Management (FM) Code, to drive improvement in financial management for councils.

Steve Rotheram has said that he wants to see an ‘active travel revolution’ in the Liverpool City Region over the next ten years.
The Metro Mayor for the Liverpool City Region has called on people in the city to leave their cars at home in favour of taking more short journeys by foot or bike, arguing that it would improve air quality by reducing emissions, have a positive impact on health and well-being and help to boost the regional economy.

More school children across England will now learn essential cycling skills thanks to a £13 million government investment in Bikeability.
Bikeability training is offered at three levels based on a child’s age and experience, with training starting with basic bike-handling skills in a traffic-free, controlled environment and builds to managing a variety of traffic conditions on different types of roads.

Official figures indicate that levels of severe obesity among children in the last year of primary school have hit an all-time high.
Data from the child measurement programme showed that 26,000 Year 6 children, aged 10 to 11, were severely obese, a definition which means they need medical help. This is the fourth consecutive year that severe obesity in Year 6 pupils in England has broken records, and it is up more than a third since 2006.

A significant proportion of all pupils experiencing an unexplained exit fail to return to the school system ever again.

Low-income voters could be a crucial force at the next election, partly due to being more willing to switch between parties.

The number of trees in Bath & North East Somerset could be doubled as part of the council’s commitment to tackle the climate emergency.
Bath & North East Somerset Council aims to deliver on ambitions published by the West of England Nature Partnership to double woodland across the district by 2060, outlining an early ambition of planting 100,000 trees, with partners and communities, by May 2023.

The Environment Agency has set itself the aim of becoming a net zero organisation by 2030.
The government department, which works to protect and improve the environment, says that the move will ensure that its own activities and its supply chain are taking as much carbon out of the atmosphere as it is putting into it.