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.
The Local Government Association and the Design Council have opened applications for this year’s programme, which will focus on helping nine councils to explore their most pressing climate challenges and consider how to create lasting positive change for their communities.

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.
Some 483 people in 179 households took part in the survey, first started by Daniel Webb in 2018, by recording the amount of plastic waste they produced for a week during lockdown. The results show that they collected almost 23,000 pieces of rubbish between them.

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.