The current employment rate is 74.6 per cent – the highest employment rate since records began in 1971.

A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that nearly a third of the UK population is living on an ‘inadequate’ income.
According to the report, the number of individuals below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) rose by four million, from 15 million to 19 million, which represents 30 per cent of the population.

The LGA has claimed that extending compulsory sex and relationship education in academies could reduce the diagnosis of STIs.

A Northern Powerhouse conference has been labelled as ‘embarrassing’ for its lack of women speakers.

The Office of Low Emissions Vehicles (OLEV) has announced a new £2.5 million fund for an on-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, which is open for councils to bid on.

The Education Select Committee has published a report outlining that the government has not made an adequate case for opening a new wave of grammar schools, including its claim that the schools could further social mobility.

Pembrokeshire Council has backed St Davids - the smallest city in the UK, plan to become the 2021 City of Culture.

Information collated via a BBC Freedom of Information (FoI) request has found that councils in England have paid out over £35 million in compensation fees to tenants living in unfit council homes, over the past five years.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a facility targeted at protecting the UK against cyber-attacks and overseen by parent body GCHQ, is set to be opened in London by HM the Queen.