The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has called on MPs to support plans to ensure all children from poor backgrounds are automatically registered fro free school meals.

Birmingham City Council's children's services have been rated as ‘inadequate’, marking no change in rating since 2008.

Glasgow City Council has announced plans to have 50,000 new jobs and an additional 1000 new businesses by 2023.

Worcester City Council has announced that it will move to a committee-based system, after members backed the motion at a full council meeting.
The council will therefore prepare to move from its current system of major decisions being made by the leader and the cabinet, with the new arrangements coming into place next May.
Moving forward, most decisions are made by committees with cross-party membership, reflecting the political make-up of the council. The council is currently made up of 17 Conservative members of the council, 16 Labour and two Greens.

A new report has discovered that 52 per cent of British adults believe that abuse and neglect in care homes for the elderly is common.
The Independent Age charity is campaigning for new measures to understand the scale of the problem, with the majority of respondents claiming that personal experience has guided their belief.

The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has claimed that the UK government appears not to have learned the lessons from its 2011 Libya intervention.
Following on from its September conclusions that the UK had lacked a coherent strategy and intelligence had not been ‘accurate’, Crispin Blunt, chairman of the committee, voiced his concerns over the ‘troubling’ response from ministers, arguing that similar mistakes could be made again in Iraq.

The UK Government must protect single market status in order to avoid being ‘driven-off a hard Brexit cliff-edge’.

The Bus Services Bill has been hampered by the ‘government’s failure to publish key secondary legislation and guidance’.

Andrew Lansley has voiced his disappointment at the lack of extra funding for the NHS and social care in the Autumn Statement.