The UK’s recycling infrastructure is not set up to cope with packaging materials from a growth in online retail, packaging manufacturer DS Smith has claimed.
The company's Tipping Point report suggess that the UK will not meet a 65 per cent municipal waste recycling target until 2048 – more than a decade after the EU Circular Economy Package’s 2035 goal.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report released today states that income tax seems the most promising candidate for partial devolution.
Taking control: which taxes could be devolved to English local government? looks at the taxes currently devolved to local government in England and in other countries; sets out criteria which can be used to assess whether different taxes and tax powers are in fact suitable for devolution; applies these to a range of taxes; and looks at how much could be raised in different parts of England from different options.

The Local Government Association has called for continued funding for the Troubled Families programme after an evaluation found the scheme has helped hundreds of thousands of families.

Assessors working for Lambeth, Kingston and Barking and Dagenham created false housing benefit claims over a period of six years

The Human City Institute has published a report addressing the diversity of the social tenants over the last two decades.

Councils across England are to receive a share of £9.75 million to help cleani up high streets and town centres, Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP confirmed.

New figures from the National Crime Agency show that referrals of potential victims of modern slavery made by councils have soared ninefold in five years.
Latest National Crime Agency statistics show the number of council referrals of suspected victims of modern slavery to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) - the UK’s framework for referring and supporting victims - has risen from 153 in 2013 to 1,342 in 2018. The rate of council referrals has increased by 70 per cent in the last year alone, from 789 in 2017, and 221 per cent in two years, from 418 in 2016.

The numbers are worst for local NHS bodies such as Clinical Commissioning Groups and Hospital Trusts, where 38% did not have proper arrangements.

CIPFA’s council tax survey also finds the significant gap between the increases in different parts of Wales