The government has announced an extra £30 million for Winter Pressures Funding.
The funding will help people on the brink of homelessness with support to remain in their homes.
The boost brings the total Winter Pressures Funding for homelessness and rough sleeping to £60 million this year.
The extra £30 million for homelessness services is targeted at 295 areas that are facing the highest risks of homelessness through housing costs and rent arrears.

A £120 million investment package is set to benefit drivers, cabbies, and businesses by supporting them making the shift to cleaner vans, wheelchair accessible vehicles and taxis and removing financial barriers to entry.

The first 750 schools have been selected to offer free breakfast clubs, as part of the government’s national roll out.
From April, chosen schools across all nine regions will kick-off the programme, with an early adopter phase set to inform the government about future implementation.
The early adopter schools will offer a free breakfast and at least 30 minutes of free childcare, every day, helping to support parents getting into work by dropping their children off half an hour earlier.

A recruitment campaign has been launched to address workforce shortages in local authorities, and aims to encourage young people aged between 18 to 27 to take up jobs in local authorities.

The Final Budget 2025-2026 has been published in the Senedd, with an extra £100 million for public services.
Social care, childcare and local councils are set to benefit from more than £100 million in extra funding.
The new agreement includes an extra £30 million for childcare, which will ensure funding for the Flying Start programme to deliver childcare to two-year-olds across Wales. The hourly rate will also be increased to £6.40 an hour to further support childcare providers.

Councils that are in exceptional need of help are set to receive letters confirming government support to help balance their budgets.
30 councils have bee confirmed to receive support for the coming financial year to ensure delivery of vital public services, protecting vital community assets and promoting economic stability as committed to in the Plan for Change.

A new government office complex in Manchester has been given planning consent.
Manchester Digital Campus is to be built on the former Central Retail Park in Ancoats after the city’s planning committee approved the Government Property Agency’s (GPA) scheme at a meeting.
The campus is designed to bring together Civil Service departments with a focus around digital skills and create significant employment opportunities and economic benefits in the region.

Arts and culture in the UK is set to receive a huge £270 million package as part of an Arts Everywhere Fund, which benefit hundreds of arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings.

People living and working in rural communities are being consulted on what government priorities should be to improve their lives.
Rural Scotland accounts for 98 per cent of the land mass of Scotland and 17 per cent of the population.
A Scottish Government survey will help develop the forthcoming Rural Delivery Plan, which will cover a range of areas including agriculture, transport, housing, health and social care, marine, land reform, population, skills, digital connectivity and economic development.