Nine years of government cuts have left local services for single homeless people with a shocking £1 billion a year funding gap.

Almost 10,000 fines for breaches of ‘petty’ council orders were issued in 2018, leading to calls for the PSPOs to be scrapped.

MPs will debate the case for reforming the Commons’ ‘divisive, broken electoral system’.

Large parts of England are effectively ‘democracy deserts’, with hundreds of thousands of potential voters denied real choice in this May’s elections.

Under new proposals set out in the council’s draft Local Plan, vital green spaces across Bristol would be protected from future development.

Analysis of spending by English local authorities on services for young people has revealed a real-terms cut of £880 million since 2010.

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has called on the government to initiate a national review of event security.

For pupils expected to have completed school in 2017, eight per cent were subject to moves that cannot be accounted for, finds the Education Policy Institute

£38 million has been given to managing agent Warmworks to continue to deliver the government’s fuel poverty scheme over the next two years.

The Mayor of London is investing £11m into modular homes to help homeless families in the capital.

Special needs provision in England has lost out on £1.2 billion because of shortfalls in funding increases from central government since 2015.

The government has announced that private landlords will no longer be able to evict tenants from their homes at short notice without good reason.

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