Councils will receive £53.9bn in funding for the coming financial year, including more than £1bn of additional funding for social care.
The UK’s first deposit return scheme will go live across Scotland on 16 August 2023, helping to recycle billions of bottles and cans every ye
Boris Johnson has appointed the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE as chair of the forthcoming public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic.
New homes and buildings will have to produce significantly less CO2 under new rules to help the country move towards net zero.
The top five per cent of families have gotten richer by £3,300 a year, while the poorest 50 per cent have had their incomes squeezed by £110.
The grant scheme for zero-emission vehicles has been updated to target less expensive models, allowing funding to go further.
The Centre for Mental Health has said that the mental health of young people has been underfunded for too long, leaving a postcode lottery of support.
Nearly two millions children in England are living in overcrowded, unaffordable or unsuitable homes, according to the National Housing Federation.
Warwick District Council has agreed to formally submit a request for a full political merger with Stratford-on-Avon District Council.
UKGBC has published a framework to support cities and local authorities to measure the impacts and wider benefits of building retrofit.
MPs have said that the government’s case for mandating the presentation of photo ID at polling stations has ‘simply not been good enough’.
Councils will need an extension to the Covid-19 outbreak funding to tackle rising Omicron cases and meet a surge in demand for local contact tracing.