15/10/2018 - 14:36
The government is unlikely to invest almost £1 billion in local communities through the ESF, risking the money being sent back to Brussels.
15/10/2018 - 12:16
Theresa May has launched the first strategy to tackle loneliness, claiming it to be ‘one of the greatest public health challenges of our time’.
12/10/2018 - 09:52
The Department for Transport has announced changes to funding to support purchasing the next 35,000 of the cleanest vehicles.
10/10/2018 - 10:01
The government has launched a £20 million fund to help those at risk of homelessness secure their own tenancy.
04/10/2018 - 12:05
Andy Burnham has urged the government to provide Greater Manchester the resources to tackle local congestion.
04/10/2018 - 10:03
The government has announced borrowing restrictions will be removed enabling councils to play a key role in delivering more homes.
02/10/2018 - 10:09
Michael Gove says 250 million extra meals could be supplied each year to the most needy in society by cracking down on unnecessary food waste.
01/10/2018 - 08:32
Government grant funding for local services will be cut by a further £1.3 billion in 2019/20, despite current council overspends.
28/09/2018 - 10:51
Statistics on children’s services have revealed that budgets for ‘early intervention’ children’s services have dropped by £743 million in the last five years.
26/09/2018 - 09:47
Jeremy Corbyn is expected to announce a pledge to extend the government’s 30 hours of free childcare programme.
25/09/2018 - 15:38
A postcode lottery of different schemes has led to more than 80 per cent of waste not being sent for recycling in some areas.
25/09/2018 - 11:13
Council leaders have united to campaign against austerity only for the most deprived areas of the country.
24/09/2018 - 10:44
Angela Rayner is set to tell the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that the current school system is ‘simply not fit for purpose’.
19/09/2018 - 15:37
Towns who were more likely to vote leave in the EU referendum are the areas of the UK that could lose most from the Brexit process.
19/09/2018 - 09:50
The government has announced that its intervention in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is to end on 24 September.
