Fourteen ‘brownfield’ sites have been identified for nearly 3,000 new homes in the Liverpool City Region.
Councils are to be forced to care for some of the unaccompanied asylum seeker children who have arrived via the English Channel in small boats.
People living in social housing will be safer in their homes under new rules that will mean smoke alarms must be fitted in all rented accommodation.
More than 5,000 new homes in flood-risk areas of England have been granted planning permission so far this year.
The Local Government Association has announced the nine successful councils in its new Digital Pathfinders Programme.
New homes and buildings, as well as those undergoing major renovation, will be required to install electric vehicle charge points from next year.
The number of vulnerable children being placed in council care could reach almost 100,000 by the middle of the decade.
The government has launched a £7 million fund to help people access more volunteering opportunities across a range of sectors.
The CCN is urging the government to show the ‘highest level of ambition’ for devolution and levelling up in county and rural areas.
Shelter has warned that a failure to include social housing in the government’s upcoming ‘levelling up’ plan may escalate the housing emergency.
More than a million vulnerable children in England have had their life chances reduced by cuts to early years and youth support since 2010.
Hundreds of arts, heritage and cultural organisations across England will receive a share of £107 million from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
The UK’s arts, culture and heritage sector suffered from a 60 per cent decline in output due to social distancing rules and lockdowns.
New research has argued that it is investment in cities, not towns, is the best way to tackle regional inequality for the long-term.
Nearly 100 cities have been named as leaders in environmental action and transparency in 2021 by CDP, with 11 UK cities making the list.