North of Tyne Combined Authority has announced that it is working with the Energy Saving Trust to develop a housing stock database.

London Councils has appointed Michelle Binfield as Rough Sleeping Programme Director to help end rough sleeping in the capital by 2024.

Sutton Council is deploying sensors to help combat fly-tipping and the rise of unauthorised access in the borough’s car parks.

Half of employers expect an increase in demand for flexible forms of working from employees after the country comes out of the pandemic.

More than half a million people are now registered with asthma in London and two-thirds of sufferers say their condition is made worse by poor air quality.

Labour has warned that nearly two million children will leave school without any catch-up support over the next four years.

Council spending on crucial services that help stop children reaching crisis point has almost halved over the last decade.

Over a million children of key workers are currently living in poverty, with key worker families in the North East the hardest hit.

Leaders in Greater Manchester have unveiled an ambitious vision for new homes, enhanced natural assets and revitalised town centres.

The Public Accounts Committee has said that the government’s oversight of local government audit has become ‘increasingly complacent’.

Grant Shapps has announced a Transport decarbonisation plan to help the whole transport sector reach net zero by 2050.

The LGA has urged for a cross-government strategy for children and young people to ensure they are at the heart of the national recovery.

A new report is calling for a new framework and funding to make assistive technology ‘mainstream’ in adult social care services.

The G7’s commitment to ‘Build Back a Better World’ should start with a pledge to build back safer to tackle deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a new plan to boost the capital’s supply of council homes through a new Right to Buy-back fund.

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