08/02/2022 - 09:45
Thousands of social housing tenants will have their energy bills cut and homes made warmer as the government improves energy efficiency.
08/02/2022 - 09:21
Councils will have access to a share of £54.1 billion in funding for the coming financial year, including more than £1 billion for social care.
07/02/2022 - 14:16
Motorists are set to benefit from a government crackdown on rogue parking firms which will see fines slashed and a clearer appeals system created.
07/02/2022 - 09:44
Transport for New Homes has found that housing developments on former farmland are adding hundreds of thousands of extra car journeys to England’s roads.
07/02/2022 - 09:26
The Children’s Commissioner for England has claimed that children’s access to specialist NHS mental health services remains ‘a postcode lottery’.
04/02/2022 - 11:12
The Public Campaign for the Arts has found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services has halved across England since 2009-10.
04/02/2022 - 09:40
Thousands more jobseekers can now access tailored face-to-face job support and meet local employers as 150 new jobcentres are opened.
03/02/2022 - 12:07
Rishi Sunak has announced that millions of households will receive £350 of government support to help protect them from rising energy costs.
03/02/2022 - 07:52
Government policies to stimulate local economic growth are not consistently based on evidence of what interventions are likely to be most effective.
03/02/2022 - 07:17
CIPFA’s 2022 Financial Resilience Index shows that English local authority reserves have grown to £29 billion, up from £19 billion in 2019/2020.
03/02/2022 - 06:49
Michael Gove has published the government’s Levelling Up white paper setting out an ambitious blueprint to expand opportunities across the whole UK.
01/02/2022 - 15:24
Young people will be given access to more activities, trips away from home and volunteering opportunities as part of a new National Youth Guarantee.
01/02/2022 - 15:15
A cross-party group of MPs has declared that Londoners must not be excluded from the benefits of the government’s levelling up plans.
01/02/2022 - 11:59
An investigation has found stark levels of inequality between rural and urban areas when it comes to health and social care services.
01/02/2022 - 11:45
A new study has found that polices designed to address regional inequalities are less effective when undertaken in a national and centralised approach.
