Over 80 per cent of young people with a history of mental ill health have found their conditions have worsened since the coronavirus crisis.

Urgent intervention is needed to ensure that millions of children are not unfairly disadvantaged by the measures to combat the coronavirus crisis.
The IPPR think tank says that an estimated 3.9 million parents may need to care for children because they are no longer in school or childcare. All parents and carers have already faced increased costs for educational materials, internet usage and entertainment. Even those furloughed by their employers under the job retention scheme face a 20 per cent cut to their income.

Bus services will struggle to survive the coronavirus outbreak without emergency rescue funding, says LGA.

Children eligible for free school meals will benefit from a voucher scheme allowing them to continue to access meals whilst they stay at home.

The Forestry Commission has opened the second round of the Urban Tree Challenge Fund, to help increase tree numbers in urban areas.

The government has announced that specialist units are working at pace to combat false and misleading narratives about coronavirus.
The Rapid Response Unit, operating from within the Cabinet Office and No10, is tackling a range of harmful narratives online - from purported ‘experts’ issuing dangerous misinformation to criminal fraudsters running phishing scams.

NHS staff will receive free travel on buses throughout Wales in return for hardship funding over the next three months.

The number of people committing to join the NHS coronavirus effort is three times higher than initially targeted.

The LGA is growing increasingly concerned about ‘unacceptable’ attacks on council workers carrying out essential social distancing duties.

People struggling with their mental health during the coronavirus outbreak will be offered additional online support.