Plymouth City Council is to use of new legal powers to force the government to reveal the truth about the impact of Brexit on the region.

England is being ‘left behind’ by a number of developed countries when it comes to funding care for older people.

Local authorities are urged to bid for a share of the £95 million being made available to help rollout full fibre connectivity across the UK.

The numbers of homeless children that councils are housing in temporary accommodation has increased by 76 per cent in the last seven years.
According to the Local Government Association, councils have been housing an additional 650 homeless children every month, and are now urging the government to adapt welfare reforms and allow councils to borrow to build new homes, with the right infrastructure, to tackle the housing shortage which is the root cause of our homelessness crisis.

A new survey has revealed that 84 per cent of MPs and 76 per cent of peers agree that funding for adult social care should increase.
Commissioned by the Local Government Association, the ComRes poll shows that there is far reaching cross-party support for additional funding for adult social care and the LGA is urging the government to act now before it is too late. Councils estimate that adult social care services face a £3.5 billion funding gap by 2025, with English councils receiving 1.8 million new requests for adult social care a year, equalling nearly 5,000 a day.

Oliver Dowden has announced that SMEs are accessing almost half of public sector spend on digital, data and technology services.

A lack of revenue funding and uncertainty over current levels of funding are the main barriers to councils investing in sustainable travel.

An IAM RoadSmart survey has found that its members are increasingly disillusioned with the state of the roads in the UK.