New data has warned that over 200 of the UK’s shopping centres are in danger of falling into administration.

Historic England will help to regenerate England’s struggling historic high streets with the aid of £40 million government funding.

Just £32 million was withheld from PFI providers, confirming government fears that tax payers are over-paying for poor service.

More than half of the UK population are underestimating the cost of care home costs, by an average of £12,000 a year.

James Brokenshire has welcomed Homes England Strategic Plan, which is 'pivotal to helping deliver the homes that communities need'.

The least socially mobile areas in England are counties because of ‘outdated’ and ‘inequitable’ method of council funding.

CILIP and The Big Issue Group have jointly called for long-term sustainable investment to secure the future of England’s public libraries.
The two organisations have collaborated to produce compelling evidence of both the popularity of public libraries and their impact on wider social issues including health and wellbeing, education, poverty, loneliness and digital skills, with the evidence presented at a meeting of the Libraries All-Party Parliamentary Group.

A major review has said that new planning rules should be produced for sites with more than 1,500 homes to speed up build out rates.
Sir Oliver Letwin’s interim report did not report any evidence that major developers are ‘holding land as a purely speculative activity’ – and their business models instead rely on selling houses. Instead, he said that having too many identical properties on large sites is the fundamental reason behind the slow build out rate.

Ofsted has judged children’s services at Bradford Council as inadequate, with children in need of protection left ‘at risk of serious harm’.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his 2018 Budget, ruling out any further government private finance initiative contracts.
Hammond began by telling the Commons that the era of austerity is ‘coming to an end’, but that 'discipline will remain'. Whilst echoing the words of Prime Minister May from last month, the choice of words 'coming to an end' suggests pragmatism, and likely foretelling a slowing down of austerity, rather than an immediate end.