Basildon Borough Council has been fined £150,000 by the ICO for breaching the Data Protection Act.

Mind has revealed that public sector staff are more likely to feel anxious at work and take sick days for their mental health than those in the private sector.

A new study reveals that only 10 per cent of England’s extensive floodplains are fit for purpose, increasing the risk of flooding across the UK.

Refuse collection workers at Birmingham City Council have started voting in an industrial action ballot.

The government will be taken to court for a third time over its plans to tackle the UK’s illegal levels of air pollution.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pledged support for UK public services, attacking Tory education and health policy.

Women working at Glasgow City Council have secured an equal pay victory at court.

Housing charity shelter has warned that low-paid workers are working for the equivalent of a morning per day just to cover the cost of their rent.
Those earning between £16,000 and £23,000 a year, assumed to be in the Conservative party’s ‘just about managing’ bracket, are typically paying 44 per cent of their income on rent to live in a standard one-bed flat.
Shelter is consequently urging the next government to build half a million of ‘living rent’ homes for ordinary working families over the next five years.

New research reveals that there are at least 2,000 food banks operating in the UK, far greater than previous headline figures have indicated.