Ambitious plans to keep children safe by installing an advisory 20mph zone outside every school in Somerset have been announced.
Somerset County Council has committed £1.5 million to tackle speeding by rolling out a programme of advisory 20mph zones across the county. The zone will predominantly be outside half the county’s schools, with the rest to follow in future years. The programme will be rolled out in discussion with individual schools.

New research from IPPR North has argued that the centralisation of power in Westminster is unfairly holding all of England back.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was very vocal about the need to level up regional divides at the top of his government’s agenda. However, the think tank’s new report found that 47 per cent of new jobs in England in the last decade were in London and the south-east, despite only a third of the population living in that region.

Parents are set to benefit from new technology to support their children learning at home, with six new apps now available.

The Bright Blue think tank has revealed that 70,000 English homes in areas prone to flooding have no insurance.
New analysis, entitled High and dry: Preventing tomorrow’s ‘flood ghettos’, identified the number and location of residential properties in England that are at-risk at some point of having no flood insurance because they are in high-risk flooding zones and were built after 2008 and therefore not covered by the government and industry Flood Re insurance scheme.

Andy Burnham has called for the government to give towns, cities and regions across the UK more power to control their own destinies.

London Councils is launching a new online resource to support borough collaboration on car clubs policy.

Local authorities will still face a funding shortfall of £19 billion over the next five years, despite expected increases in council tax.

The government must recommit to closing the health gap between rich and poor and take action on ‘unacceptable’ health inequalities.

Steve Rotheram has revealed that bus services could be franchised as part of a London-style public transport system for the city region.