Birmingham City Council has called for Internet broadband connections to family homes to be installed at a cost designed to help young people bridge the digital divide.
Up to 2,000 Birmingham school pupils will embrace technology in their homes this month. They are part of the largest group of pupils in the country to be given a new laptop computer each to take home and keep.
10 ways councils are responding to new housing and planning policy
With the Government’s target of building 1.5 million homes by 2029 looming, councils are enacting a number of policy shifts to accelerate housing delivery and increase the efficiency of planning processes.
