Greater Manchester libraries are introducing a new initiative that aims to help people across the city region launch their own start-up businesses.
Having received £250,000 from the Arts Council earlier in the year, Greater Manchester libraries will now seek to deliver personalised one-to-one business information sessions to visitors at libraries through the Big Ideas Generators project.

Transport for the North has released its Strategic Transport Plan to transform the North’s economy through investment in transport infrastructure.

The SMMT has urged the government to secure a transitional Brexit deal to protect the future of the UK car industry.

The Guardian is reporting that councils will be fully reimbursed for any building work carried out on tower blocks.

As part of the ten year anniversary of the 2007 floods, Hull City Council has created a new voluntary scheme for community flood wardens.
The council is urging local residents in Sutton to volunteer as flood wardens, who form a link between the authorities and communities at risk from flooding, as part of this scheme and engage with the flood team, Groundwork and the Environment Agency to find out how they can help their local community.

Care workers are compromising the dignity and well-being of the people they look after, a new survey has found.

Parliament will sit for two years instead of the usual one to give MPs enough time to consider the laws required to make Britain ready for Brexit.

Following the recent General Election, county leaders are urging the government to avoid ‘kicking social care reform into the long grass’.
The County Councils Network (CCN) has warned that the government risks repeating the well-documented social care funding crisis in a few years’ time unless tangible and long-lasting reform is sought.
To prevent this, the government must launch a green paper on the future sustainability of social care, with counties and their local government partners central to any review or reform.

Birmingham City Council has launched a consultation on a new system for providing early years services for children and families in the city.