Over 4,000 young people ‘exploited’ by County Lines gangs
Babergh council considers changing name to ‘eliminate confusion’
Whitehall announces 12 renewable energy projects
Named person scheme dropped
Quarter of teachers work more than 60 hours a week, study reveals
Call for views on the financial reporting of local authorities
Whitehall launches £95m high street fund
Over 300,000 people forced to sell homes to pay for care
Slavery in supply chains
Tiffany Cloynes and Clare Hardy explore what responsibility councils may have in the future to eliminate slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains.
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
