The vast majority of local councils do not have strategies in local plans to make sure they reach net zero carbon, says CPRE.

The number of substandard road bridges managed by councils has risen for the second year running, with a shortage of staff to carry out inspections.

More than a million additional school children could receive free school meals if the sign-up process for the scheme was simplified.

London boroughs have warned that reduced government funding risks undermining homelessness prevention work in the capital.

A pioneering scheme to take rough sleepers off the street and into housing has now helped more than 500 people in the West Midlands.
Backed by £9.6 million government funding, the West Midlands Combined Authrity pilot gives people who have experienced rough sleeping a home with intensive support for problems such as mental, psychological, or emotional ill health, drug or alcohol dependency, or experience of domestic violence and abuse.

The government has unveiled plans to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030, almost five times the number of fuel pumps on our roads today.

Pubs in rural communities across England are among the cherished community assets being saved by government levelling up funding.
The government has announced that endangered pubs in areas such as West Cornwall and Melton Mowbray will be put into the hands of the local community, giving them a new lease of life for generations to come.

Local authorities will be supported by £1.36 billion from the Health and Social Care Levy to pay a fairer rate of care to adult social care providers.

Spiralling fuel prices are impacting on school transport services, with local authorities set to have to pay providers significantly more.

Paul Scully has confirmed that a new law is now in place to help resolve certain remaining commercial rent debts accrued because of the pandemic.