The LGA and some local councils are supporting a new campaign to tackle child abuse and neglect and increase confidence in reporting incidents.

A new report by iMPOWER has detailed how councils have used the £2 billion Improved Better Care Fund since it was announced last Spring.

Sadiq Khan has revealed that businesses around London have joined a scheme that offers people free tap water ‘refills’.

The Department for Education has announced a £17 million package of support for councils to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.

Sajid Javid has recommended ‘a new start’ for Northamptonshire County Council which would best be achieved through the creation of two new unitary councils’.

Wirral Council has announced that it has saved £336,000 since it switched from Oracle support to Support Revolution three years ago.
The authority, which employs 3,500 people, has been able to invest further in its plan to create a more agile workforce as a result of the cost savings, enabling more remote working and a migration to Windows 10 for all of its users. The £336,000 savings on its software support and maintenance systems, which will feed into the council’s IT transformation project, is key under current budget pressures.

Manchester City Council and Keep Britain Tidy are collaborating with the aim of making Manchester the UK’s first ‘Tidy City’ by 2020.
The ‘Keep Manchester Tidy’ campaign is the first formal partnership between a UK city and the Keep Britain Tidy charity and hopes to be a trailblazer for a national network of ‘Tidy Cities’ in the future. It aims to create a cleaner city, with better parks, green spaces and waterways, which recycles more and plays its part in limiting the impacts of climate change.

As part of its tenure as the UK City of Culture, the 2017 events in Hull brought a ‘significant increase’ in arts and culture participation.

Independent Age says the proportion of care homes rated ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ increased in one in five local authority areas last year.

Four Commons committees have urged for an end to the UK's ‘poisonous air’ emergency and demanded a faster phase-out of petrol and diesel cars.