£100 million has now been allocated to 266 local authorities to support the recovery of publicly-owned leisure centres and gyms.

The social care sector has united in a joint call on ministers to break their silence on the future of social care.

The government must learn from past failures in data handling if it is to overcome the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, say MPs.

A survey has found that coronavirus will be the most important issue to people as they cast their vote in the upcoming local elections.

Families will receive a boost of over £50 million this Easter, with councils given additional funding to keep vulnerable children warm and well-fed.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced new investment in air quality monitoring worth almost £1.5 million.

The JCVI has advised the government to prioritise people experiencing homelessness, including those sleeping rough, for the coronavirus vaccine.

Sadiq Khan has announced that construction work will begin on four major new cycling infrastructure projects across the capital this month.

Vaughan Gething has announced an extra £50 million of government funding to allow health boards to extend contact tracing over the summer.

Jon Ashworth has said that ten years of Conservative failure ‘weakened our defences’ and meant the country went into the pandemic woefully unprepared.

Local authorities have been granted more than £5 million in government funding to deliver innovative projects to improve air quality.

All businesses in England are now able to sign up to the government’s free coronavirus workplace testing programme.

More than two in three parents say they have seen their children’s physical activity levels decrease during lockdown.

Over £70 million is to be invested into weight management services, enabling up to 700,000 adults to have access to support that can help them to lose weight.

Whole families and households with school-age children will be able to test themselves twice every week from home as schools return from 8 March.

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