The Communities and Local Government and Health Committees have launched a joint inquiry on the long-term funding of adult social care.

Northamptonshire County Council have proposed a plan to sell its new £53 million One Angel Square headquarters, which officially opened in October.
If approved, the council would then see the building leased back over a 25 year period and use the funds to help fund social care and other service transformation.
The office complex, which replaced 12 separate offices, is already saving £53,000 a week on reduced running costs alone.

Rough sleeping in England has increased for the seventh year in a row, despite the government investing £550 million to address the issue.

The CCN has warned that new freedoms to raise council tax will only raise one tenth of the amount being cut from county council budgets.

The government plans to spend £1.1 million per mile to maintain its strategic road network in the next few years, but only £21,000 per mile for the local roads.

Shops, cafes and businesses will offer free water refill points in every major city and town by 2021 in a bid to cut disposable plastic bottle use.

£42 million will be spent on enabling more elderly and disabled residents to make adaptations to their homes so they can live independently.

Following a successful trial, Conwy County Borough Council has taken the decision to phase in four-weekly black bin collections across the region.
The trial of 10,900 properties throughout the county, which ran for a year, showed that recycling increased by 14 per cent and black bin waste reduced by 31 per cent, saving 1,040 tonnes from landfill.
The move to four-weekly black bin collections will be phased in by the end of 2019.

Hackney Council has announced plans to build modern new homes at a genuinely affordable living rent, saving renters £10,000 a year.