Birmingham City Council has successfully bid for £1.3 million of funding to implement new safety measures to benefit cyclists and pedestrians.

The Care Crisis Review has claimed that the children’s care sector is overstretched and overwhelmed.

The LGA has revealed over 133,000 businesses are still waiting for an appeal of their business rates valuation from 2010 to be resolved.

New polling for the NHS Confederation finds that over 80 per cent of the public support a 3.9 per cent increase in social care spending.

London councils have spent nearly £100 million on building safety measures since the Grenfell Tower fire 12 months ago.

The new leader of Knowsley Council has confirmed that he intends to drop the proposals to sell 10 per cent of the borough’s parks.

Senior council officials have warned that adult social care services in England are on the brink of collapse in some regions.

Almost half of the entire £8.6 billion children’s services budget in England is now spent on 73,000 children in the care system.

83 areas will share £30 million to boost the immediate support available to people living on the streets and help them into accommodation.

Councils warn that ability to replace homes sold under Right to Buy will be all but eliminated within five years without major reforms.

Oxford's county and city councils are to work together to tackle commuter parking problems and fund new controlled parking zones.

Over nine in 10 council leaders believe some local authorities will get into serious financial difficulties within the next three years.

More than one and a half million people in the UK were in destitution at some point in 2017, a new report from the JRF has found.

The NAO has reported that the recent collapse of large construction firm Carillion will cost UK taxpayers an estimated £148 million.

A BBC freedom of information request has found that at least 72 councils in England are planning to cut sexual-health funding this year.

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