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Council declares major incident at 65-year-old Barton House after survey finds three flats pose structural riskHundreds of people have been evacuated from a 65-year-old tower block in Bristol after a major structural risk was discovered, with some fami…
Exclusive: Voluntary organisations struggling as grants for local government and NHS contracts fail to cover costsCharities in England are on the brink of insolvency after subsidising heavily underfunded local authority and NHS contracts to the tune o…
Max Caller, tasked with pulling the local authority from financial brink, calls crisis ‘self-inflicted’Councillors at Birmingham city council “ignored the warning signs” of its financial crisis and caused a “self-inflicted” disaster that will take year…
National Audit Office says political chaos has delayed proposed measures to improve recruitment in EnglandThe government has delayed several key reforms to social care staffing in England due to political chaos caused by the collapse of the Boris Johns…
Go North East pay dispute said to be leaving thousands ‘stuck at home’ and ‘missing work and medical appointments’A bus company has been accused of damaging the daily lives of passengers as people in north-east England are forced to stay at home, missi…
Planning Inspectorate says ‘Captain Tom Building’ harms Grade II-listed home where Moore’s daughter and her family liveThe family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have lost a planning application appeal for a spa complex in their garden and have been given thr…
Experts say backlog increases risk of financial irregularities and risky behaviours going undetectedThe early warning system designed to identify English councils in serious financial difficulty is in crisis, with hundreds of local authorities failing …
Afrasiab Anwar, one of 11 councillors to resign, was among those who earlier asked party leader to step downThe leader of Burnley borough council has resigned along with 10 other councillors in protest at Keir Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire …
Exclusive: Centrepoint research shows a third are not assessed or cannot get through on helplinesEnough young people sought help for homelessness in the UK last year to fill the Albert Hall 25 times, but tens of thousands are getting no assistance from…
Time constraints, red tape and lack of resources to distribute the money are the main reasons for not allocating cashA multibillion pound fund designed to boost levelling up and replace crucial EU funding is being left unspent by the vast majority of c…