Almost half of local authority areas in England contain neighbourhoods without enough youth provision to meet the levels of need, according to new analysis published today.

To deliver Labour’s missions, the sector doesn't need special treatment, we just need equal access to public finance.

Britain’s piers are more than Victorian seaside relics – they define the British coast and the communities that depend on them, driving tourism and underpinning local economies.

The plight of Britain’s boys has soared up the political agenda over the last year. Noah Vickers reports on a new caucus of Labour MPs taking up the issue

Reoffending is frequently the result of unmet need rather than criminal intent. With rehabilitative services due for recommissioning, policymakers have an opportunity to align justice, health and housing systems around the individual.

Fast-tracked into government after just over a year in Parliament, justice minister Jake Richards tells Sienna Rodgers about his plans to overhaul youth justice, reform the ECHR and face down Labour rebels

One year ago, I wrote for this magazine on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau, reflecting on the importance of keeping history alive. Today, that responsibility is greater still.

The VAWG Strategy marks progress on economic abuse. Parliament’s focus must now be on delivering for victim-survivors.

Conservative councillors nationwide have told PoliticsHome they are being offered senior roles and parliamentary selection to defect to Reform UK in the coming months.

Not many people would associate politics with lidos, yet they are steeped in political history.

Reform UK councillors have told PoliticsHome that the party should not repeat the 2025 error of promising tax cuts heading into the May local elections.

During a Westminster Hall debate in November, I raised an issue that has remained unresolved for more than three decades: the crash of RAF Chinook ZD576 and the continuing campaign for a full, judge-led public inquiry.

Reform UK-run local authorities are facing “huge headwinds”, one of the party’s cost-saving chiefs has admitted, as Nigel Farage’s party faces criticism for planned council tax rises.

The home addresses of local councillors will soon be kept secret from the public under new government legislation, amid rising concern over threats to elected representatives.

Nowhere exposes Britain’s homelessness crisis more clearly than Westminster – the home of British politics, but also the area with the worst rates of rough sleeping in the UK. There is cautious optimism, however, that it can be solved.

In my constituency office, expressions of despair and even suicidal ideation were so common that the toll on staff was impossible to ignore

Labour MPs have demanded that Conservative MP and chair of the 1922 Committee Bob Blackman apologise after he shared a tweet that claimed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s “loyalty is to Islam”.

Towards the end of November, The Princess of Wales called for a more compassionate approach to those struggling with addictions. It was a call that struck a chord with CEO of the charity Veterans Aid, Professor Hugh Milroy.

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Local authorities in England are placing more vulnerable children aged 16 and 17 in semi-independent accommodation than children of all ages in residential homes with full-time care.

The visitor economy is not a niche subject: tourism is the UK’s third-largest service export, directly contributing £58bn to the economy in 2023.

There were the factional disputes and serious concerns over organisational conduct and governance, of course.

The government will scrap the two-child benefit cap from April 2026, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed.