Calderdale Council has approved an investment of £92 million as part of its Local Flood Risk Management Strategy, to prevent damage from severe flooding.

Specialist IT staff serving Glasgow City Council have begun three weeks of strike action over fears that IT services may be privatised.

Barnsley Council has to be criticised over claims it has denied nurses and health visitors an extra day’s holiday, which was awarded to council staff as a reward for achieving a gold award from Investors in People.

A new multi-million pound deal to boost housing in key cities will provide more than 2,000 homes for private rent and create thousands of jobs.
Housing Minister Gavin Barwell announced that latest private rent deal will unlock £400 million of development and will grow the amount of good quality rental homes in the key cities of Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham.
The government’s new Home Building Fund will provide £45 million worth of funding. It is also hoped that the move will create up to 1,500 new construction jobs, on top of the estimated 2,062 rental homes.

Local authorities are being urged to consider how they can best use libraries when delivering vital public services.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has urged local authorities to consider lower speed limits, clean air zones and a move to redesign speed bumps in a bid to reduce air pollution.

East Ayrshire Council has unveiled a £131 million programme to build 604 new homes and refurbish hundreds of others as part of a scheme to provide ‘sustainable and quality homes’ for nearly 13,000 tenants.

New budget plans for Stoke-on-Trent City Council will threaten 200 jobs and could mean raising council tax by three per cent to pay for extra social care

The Scottish Borders Council has approved plans which could see nearly 1,200 affordable homes built in the region by 2022.

A group of MPs have raised issue with a decision by HM Revenue and Customs and contractor Concentrix which involved plunging tax credit claimants into ‘humiliating hardship and debt’.