Local authorities across England are allowed to sell off playing fields to help close budget gaps, Angela Rayner says.

Voters are heading to the polls in parts of England to elect thousands of councillors against the backdrop of local ...

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

Local authority efforts to enforce animal welfare legislation are undermined by cost restraints, according to a report by the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...