The SMMT has urged the government to secure a transitional Brexit deal to protect the future of the UK car industry.

The Guardian is reporting that councils will be fully reimbursed for any building work carried out on tower blocks.

As part of the ten year anniversary of the 2007 floods, Hull City Council has created a new voluntary scheme for community flood wardens.
The council is urging local residents in Sutton to volunteer as flood wardens, who form a link between the authorities and communities at risk from flooding, as part of this scheme and engage with the flood team, Groundwork and the Environment Agency to find out how they can help their local community.

Care workers are compromising the dignity and well-being of the people they look after, a new survey has found.

Parliament will sit for two years instead of the usual one to give MPs enough time to consider the laws required to make Britain ready for Brexit.

Following the recent General Election, county leaders are urging the government to avoid ‘kicking social care reform into the long grass’.
The County Councils Network (CCN) has warned that the government risks repeating the well-documented social care funding crisis in a few years’ time unless tangible and long-lasting reform is sought.
To prevent this, the government must launch a green paper on the future sustainability of social care, with counties and their local government partners central to any review or reform.

Birmingham City Council has launched a consultation on a new system for providing early years services for children and families in the city.

New figures have revealed that more than a quarter of children in care in Wales were placed in new homes outside of their county.
As of 31 March 2016, approximately 1,500 of the 5,600 placements were made out of local authority areas, with Merthyr Tydfil council having the highest rate of looked-after children placed outside its area, sitting at 84 out of 141 children, and Swansea council the lowest rate at 24 out of 510.

The latest Small Business Index, conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), has shown a drop in confidence among small firms.