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.
04/04/2017 - 09:35
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has announced new plans to help councils speed up development of derelict and underused land for new homes.
30/03/2017 - 10:36
Government figures have shown over one million people have used the Help to Buy scheme when looking to buy a property.
27/03/2017 - 11:59
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that more than 100 housing estates across England are set to benefit from a 32 million Estate Regeneration Fund to kick-start their regeneration.
24/03/2017 - 11:20
Official statistics have shown that council tax in England is on average £171 higher than that of Wales.
22/03/2017 - 09:50
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has cited over 6,000 uses of community rights, protecting over 4,000 buildings, green spaces and other local assets.
22/03/2017 - 09:26
Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss has unveiled plans for four new prisons in England and Wales, creating 5,000 modern prison places to replace old and overcrowded establishments.
16/03/2017 - 12:15
The HCA has announced it will provide a £45 million loan to build over 4,500 new homes at a site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
16/03/2017 - 09:45
Councils will gain greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention under a new flexible homelessness support grant.
13/03/2017 - 12:53
Legislation has been proposed to abolish Right to Buy, the Preserved Right to Buy and the Right to Acquire for tenants of local authorities and registered social landlords after a period of at least one year following Royal Assent.
13/03/2017 - 12:35
Stirling Council has been issued with a £10,500 penalty after it ignored warnings for nine years about asbestos in the basement of its Old Viewforth headquarters.
10/03/2017 - 10:08
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has supported a full decant of the Palace of Westminster while major works are undertaken as ‘the most economical, effective and efficient choice’.
09/03/2017 - 10:11
The UK’s most vulnerable tenants are being pushed out of the private rental market as a result of rising rents and benefit cuts.
06/03/2017 - 11:38
The Local Government Association (LGA), has called on the government to use the Spring Budget to free councils from borrowing limits hampering their ability to build new homes, citing that local authorities are forced to spend £2 million per day on providing temporary accommodation.
27/02/2017 - 10:55
Work and Pensions Select Committee chairman Frank Field has called for surplus army food packs to be used to feed the UK's homeless population, after figures showed 12,275 operational ration packs (ORP) had been disposed of between April and December.
23/02/2017 - 14:47
New data reveals that the number of new build homes that have started to be built have continued to rise to the highest level since 2007.
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