London boroughs have warned that local services in the capital face a £1.4bn funding black hole due to the impact of coronavirus.

Employers are seeing the health, well-being and productivity of their workforces adversely impacted by a shortage of support from social care services.

Councils in England are set to benefit from this year’s Design in the Public Sector programme which is themed on tackling climate change.

NHS Test and Trace and PHE will extend its partnership with local authorities to reach more people testing positive and their contacts.

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram are calling for workers to still get paid when they are requested to self-isolate.

The latest Everyday Plastic Survey has revealed that the amount of plastic waste in UK homes increased during the coronavirus lockdown.

The government has pledged to tackle cycling safety after finding that two-thirds were worried about the dangers of riding on the roads.

Urgent reform of the funding of UK adult social care is needed to save a desperately overstretched system which has now reached breaking point.

The scale of reduction of NO2 air pollution has been five times greater in central London than the national average since 2016.

Birmingham City Council will start the roll-out of 100 per cent renewable energy EV charge points across the city from Autumn 2020.

Local transport authorities will receive more than £40 million funding for the autumn term to help with school transport.

Bus and tram services will receive £256 million to help them increase services ahead of expected rises in public transport use in September.

Councils should be given the powers to close down places where coronavirus rules are being flouted and communities are put at risk of infection.

Robert Jenrick has announced that funding to help communities in urban and deprived areas plan their local neighbourhoods will almost double.

The Education Policy Institute has warned that better-off pupils in England will see larger school funding increases than poorer pupils.

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