The Social Mobility Commission has called for a shake-up of child welfare benefits and significant investment in education.

Oxford City Council’s cabinet will be asked to approve the commissioning of an electric vehicle strategy for the city.

A planned Clean Air Zone to cut harmful traffic emissions and improve air quality in Newcastle could be put in place next summer.

The creation of a new Community Forest to bring people closer to nature in the North East has been announced.

A new strategy on how Birmingham City Council will secure the right to host major sporting events in the next decade has been published.

MPs have called for more government funding for a scheme to quickly house long-term homeless people in England.

England's chief medical officer has said that a new national strategy is needed to tackle poor health and lower life expectancy in seaside towns.

Beautiful, environmentally sustainable communities are at the centre of widespread planning changes announced by Robert Jenrick.

Councils are conducting ‘mass profiling’ and ‘citizen scoring’ of welfare and social care recipients to predict fraud and rent non-payments.

The government has been urged to turn the challenges of the pandemic into an opportunity to Britain’s high streets, communities and commercial centres.

Adult social care leaders have come together to offer a collective vision of what should be in a workforce strategy for the growing sector.

Councillors have approved proposals which will see Nottinghamshire County Council staff move to a hybrid model of working from October.

Eddie Hughes has announced that vulnerable people in communities across England will be given extra support through the Changing Futures programme.

Published at a time of ‘seismic’ change for the UK towns, a new report has pointed to a strong, vibrant and successful future for northern towns.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has stressed that reforms are needed to ensure the sustainability of local government finances.

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