9/24/2015

How will the local and strategic highway networks be managed in the future? As new cross-county proposals are being considered, Jon Masters gets industry opinion on devolution.

7/23/2015

The One Public Estate (OPE) programme is entering a further phase, with more local councils expected to be asked to release surplus public land and property as part of the Government’s Productivity Plan.

7/23/2015

A record number of parks and green spaces have been given the Green Flag Award this year, partly due to the scheme’s expansion into new territory.

7/23/2015

Green spaces and beautiful urban surroundings are the realms of the wealthy, a report by the independent think tank ResPublica reveals.

7/23/2015

Children that have runaway or been declared missing are being used by gangs to expand inner city drug rings into county towns, according to a report by the Missing People charity and the Catch22 Dawes Unit.

7/23/2015

Politicians and policy makers at all levels are being urged to act on a new report mapping out the prevalence of female genital mutilation across England and Wales.

7/23/2015

Highways England has announced the names of three construction consortia and three design joint ventures that will deliver a £1.5bn programme of all-lane-running Smart Motorway projects over the next five to 10 years.

7/23/2015

City of York Council is putting forward proposals for raising its employees holiday pay to match their regular overtime or supplementary payments.

7/22/2015

The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has been warned it could face further budget cuts of up to 40%, when the 2015 spending review is published in November this year.

7/22/2015

Fresh findings by the National Audit Office show the Care Quality Commission is still deferring target dates for inspecting health providers due to staff shortages.

7/22/2015

Young children from low income families are being failed by poor housing and badly targeted services, says a report published this week by the National Children’s Bureau.

7/22/2015

Bromley Council has successfully prosecuted a former employee for housing benefit fraud after discovering the woman had secured her job and financial support from the council under a false identity.

7/22/2015

Further warnings have been sounded over Government’s roll out of Universal Credit (UC) by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC).

6/26/2015

A motorist has been given 16 weeks in jail for forging a resident parking permit – believed to be the first prison sentence handed out for such an offence in Britain.

6/26/2015

Some 38 English local authorities have failed to carry out and publish assessments of local childcare since 2012, despite being legally required to do so – a report suggests.

6/26/2015

Councillors have given the green light for the main central second phase of the new town of Northstowe in Cambridgeshire, the largest new town to be laid out in Britain since the 1960s.

6/26/2015

Crawley Borough Council has offered a two-month amnesty to anyone committing tenancy fraud in local authority owned housing.

6/26/2015

There will be no more devolution without the backing of business via Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), local government secretary Greg Clark has announced.

6/26/2015

Councils in England are facing a £3.3bn reduction in central government funding for local services in 2016/17, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA).

5/7/2015

While last winter was milder in comparison with previous ones, marginal temperatures meant winter service teams have been kept busy. Jon Masters reports.