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.
14/10/2020 - 09:21
To mark National Adoption Week, the Education Secretary has called for an overhaul of the ‘overly bureaucratic’ adoption system.
14/10/2020 - 09:16
Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has called for a short lockdown or ‘circuit-breaker’ in England of two to three weeks.
13/10/2020 - 10:28
A new report has argued that the so-called 'hardest to reach' may hold a key to pandemic recovery, but are not being listened to.
13/10/2020 - 08:36
The government has announced a new £10 million Cold Weather Fund to support councils get rough sleepers off the streets during the winter.
12/10/2020 - 14:31
More than 1,300 arts and cultural organisations are expected to benefit from a share of £257 million from the Culture Recovery Fund.
12/10/2020 - 10:21
Doctors have called for clearer additional coronavirus measures, including making the wearing of face masks mandatory in all offices.
12/10/2020 - 09:52
Legal action has been launched over the government’s failure to disclose details of its spending on contracts related to the coronavirus pandemic.
12/10/2020 - 08:45
Plans to hand greater control of Covid-19 contact tracing to town halls will come too late, say public health officials.
12/10/2020 - 08:24
Robert Jenrick has admitted that he and Jake Berry approved payments to towns in each other’s constituencies from a fund earmarked for deprived areas.
12/10/2020 - 08:06
Nine in 10 major local authorities in England do not have enough money to cover their spending plans this year.
09/10/2020 - 09:49
Birmingham's Clean Air Zone has been given an approved launch date of June 2021 by the government, following several delays.
09/10/2020 - 08:28
Councils received at least 448 individual government grants between 2015-19 in an increasingly ‘fragmented’ use of public funding.
09/10/2020 - 08:19
Power must be rebalanced around the needs of local places to achieve the government’s aim of levelling up, says news LGiU report.
08/10/2020 - 11:16
Four Core City UK leaders and mayors have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock calling for a local approach to bring down infection rates.
08/10/2020 - 08:05
Two Select Committees have launched a joint inquiry into lessons to be learned from the response to the coronavirus pandemic so far.
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