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.
24/05/2019 - 12:31
Knowsley Council has confirmed that it has started negotiations to purchase the company’s assets in Kirkby town centre.
24/05/2019 - 09:40
Andy Street has announced £2 million in funding to help communities make their streets safer and encourage more cycling and walking.
23/05/2019 - 14:47
A job-share partnership of senior health and social care leaders has been announced in Hertfordshire.
23/05/2019 - 10:01
2.6 million people in the UK live more than ten-minutes walk from a park or green space, with less than six per cent of parks legally protected.
23/05/2019 - 09:51
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has launched the 2019 iteration of the Great British High Street Awards.
23/05/2019 - 09:29
The IPPR is urging the government to introduce free social care to people over 65, funded by a 2p tax rise.
23/05/2019 - 09:17
A new report has called for fair provision of public toilets for women, saying the aim should be to have two female loos to every male one.
22/05/2019 - 11:36
Homes England has agreed funding deals with 12 local authorities to deliver 4,000 homes across England.
22/05/2019 - 11:07
A new study of UK lake sediment records has found that the floods that hit Northern England in 2009 and 2015 were the largest in 600 years.
22/05/2019 - 10:24
New research has revealed that nearly a fifth of UK public sector organisations reported over 1,000 cyber attacks last year.
22/05/2019 - 09:32
Up to 40 new areas will benefit from £15 million to expand promising innovative approaches to keeping families safely together.
22/05/2019 - 08:20
A lack of co-ordinated government policy and squeezed funding for local authorities is driving bus use into decline, warns MPs.
22/05/2019 - 07:00
Local authorities are warning that they will have to resort to providing the ‘bare minimum’ if no extra funding is made available this year.
21/05/2019 - 14:27
The government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and rescue services for a similar incident to the Grenfell fire.
21/05/2019 - 12:51
Rewilding Britain is calling for a post-Brexit transformation of farm subsidies to help deliver the UK's new zero-carbon target.
