Social workers and other safeguarding professionals have called for an end to the physical punishment of children in England.

The Government is encouraging councils to work with the police to seize and crush vehicles used by waste criminals as part of ...

District and borough councils across Surrey have published proposals for local government reorganisation, defying the ...

A record 165,510 children are now homeless and living in temporary accommodation, according to the latest homelessness ...

More than six million properties in England are in areas that are at risk of flooding, the Climate Change Committee has ...

Wiltshire Council is taking legal advice over a fire at a listed building at the centre of a planning dispute.

Public services are under £13.7bn worth of pressure due to the Government’s negligence in addressing hunger and hardship, ...

One in 6 adults have admitted to either falsely claiming the Single Person Discount (SPD) or knowing someone who had in the ...

Over 200,000 children could be in temporary accommodation by the end of this Parliament if more isn’t done to build social ...

The Government should provide £260m to fund a new 'national entitlement' to teacher training to help raise school standards, ...

Universal kerbside collections for waste batteries and electricals across the UK could save £6bn by boosting recycling and ...

Public sector trade union Unite has advised its members to reject this year’s local government pay offer and threatened ...