Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
25/10/2016 - 10:44
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced that ‘several hundred’ more children are due to arrive in Britain following the dismantlement of Calais’s ‘Jungle’ camp.
25/10/2016 - 09:16
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has revealed a new Homeless Reduction Bill which will aims to significantly reform England’s homeless legislation, ensuring that more people can receive the help they need to prevent them from becoming homeless.
24/10/2016 - 09:45
The LGA is arguing that English councils should be freed from restrictions on the ability to borrow to fund new home building.
18/10/2016 - 10:57
New housing measures to apply minimum room sizes to shared homes have been announced by Housing Minister Gavin Barwell.
17/10/2016 - 16:11
A new £40 million programme to provide an innovative approach to tackling homelessness, with prevention at its heart, has been announced.
17/10/2016 - 10:54
Councils are making preparations for the arrival of 14 children from the Calais refugee camps into the UK.
17/10/2016 - 09:48
Housing charity Shelter has cautioned that four in ten homes in Britain fall under the standards which are considered acceptable living conditions.
13/10/2016 - 12:00
Gwynedd Council has launched a consultation on whether it should increase council tax on properties which are not the sole property owned by the owner.
04/10/2016 - 12:18
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has cautioned that the UK is facing a ‘critical rental shortage’ and has called on the governme
03/10/2016 - 11:42
In an interview with the BBC, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said he will focus on spending on new homes and transport, ahead of November’s Autumn Statement.
03/10/2016 - 10:58
Newport Council is set to double the amount of council tax on long-term empty homes in the region as part of a wider plan to tackle the issue of vacant properties.
29/09/2016 - 15:03
A new study has claimed that the densification of large estates in London could help deliver thousands of new homes every year to the capital.
27/09/2016 - 10:42
Plans to build 5,000 new homes in South Oxfordshire, to help deal with Oxford’s housing crisis, have been rejected by the district council leader.
26/09/2016 - 11:11
West Lothian Council’s new council house building programme has been recognised at the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) Awards.
23/09/2016 - 11:09
Edinburgh City Council has ordered a survey of its council buildings, after 17 of the region’s schools were closed as a result of safety concerns.
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