Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that new homes for first-time buyers between 23 and 40 years old will become available at a discount of at least 20 per cent below market value.

The government has announced it will back the first ever garden villages, which have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes across England.

Gary Shapiro, the CES tech show’s event organiser has raised concern over the the UK government's lack of support for start-up companies, claiming the help available was a ‘source of embarrassment’.

Research has found that rough sleepers are victim to excessive levels of abuse by the public, including theft, sexual assault and physical violence.
Crisis, the homelessness charity, has revealed that people sleeping on the street are almost 17 times more likely to have been victims of violence and 15 times more likely to have suffered verbal abuse in the past year compared to the general public.

A new £60 million fund will help almost 150 councils tackle the problem of high levels of second homeownership in their communities.
The Community Housing Fund, announced by Housing Minister Gavin Barwell, aims to help local groups deliver affordable housing for first-time buyers.
Second home ownership in England is at an all-time high and is crowding out first time buyers and causing a shortage of available properties, with many second homes remaining empty for long periods of time.

Almost half of workers would stay in work if they were offered more flexibility by their employers in later life.

Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to waive the rents of children's centres run by community groups for up to a year if they face closure.
The proposals, part of a programme set to be implemented in 2017 to transform the way children’s services are delivered in Oxfordshire, could potentially affect eight centres which are based in buildings where the council sets the rent saving them up to £38,493 each a year.

The lack of a clear framework for the maintenance of SuDS is seen by professionals as a key barrier to effective delivery and adoption.

Home ownership rates among 25-year-olds have plummeted by more than half in 20 years, analysis shows.

The ‘unacceptably dangerous’ prison population of England and Wales should be cut to 45,000, a group of politicians have suggested.
Writing a letter to the Times, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and former Home Secretaries Ken Clarke and Jacqui Smith argued that the recent violence witnessed at Birmingham Prison was a ‘wake-up call for this country’.