Browsing: Councils

Georgia Roberts,Political Correspondent and Alex Forsyth,Political correspondentGetty ImagesThe special educational needs and disabilities system for children in England faces “total collapse” and the government must not…

Hazel ShearingEducation correspondentGettyNearly half a million under-16s in England use taxis, buses and other transport funded by their local authorities to get to school, according to…

Councils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to house homeless families, with campaigners…

The decision by Nottinghamshire council’s Reform UK leader, Mick Barton, to ban his councillors from speaking to the Nottingham Post is as absurd as it is troubling.…

A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign…

Some university systems are letting their existing faculty senates lapse while others are reshaping them to comply with SB 37. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed…

Labour-run councils are considering legal challenges to close hotels housing asylum seekers after a landmark ruling prompted officials to consider increasing the use of former military…

Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care…

Dozens of councils have been targeted by campaigners calling for a four-day week after it that emerged one local authority had become Britain’s first to vote…

Cash-strapped councils in England will be hit with hundreds of millions of pounds in extra costs after the government delayed tackling the £5bn deficits spent supporting…