For International Youth Day, Holly Firmin, Senior Community Partnerships Manager at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners GB discusses the role of youth work and support from businesses when it comes to helping young people overcome barriers to employment

Now is the time to rip up the old defunct system of funding social enterprise to create a model that drives green growth and rewards local entrepreneurship.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has discovered that neurodiversity is not only common amongst construction workers, but being neurodiverse is actually encouraging people to pursue a career in construction, following a survey of 1000 UK adults working in construction commissioned by the NFB.

As the expansion of Wimbledon’s tennis courts is hit with further delays, local MP Stephen Hammond has urged all sides to improve the application, arguing that the proposed development could have “national ramifications”.

Supported housing in Britain currently involves taking two contrasting approaches to tackle a big social problem.

Advocates for housing reform have insisted that solving London's housing crisis requires building "outwards" and "upwards", as the government prepares to announce details of new measures to tackle a shortage of homes in the capital.

The ending of a unique partnership between two veterans' charities was happily resolved when de facto Head of Outreach, John Boyle, was confirmed in post as a permanent member of staff.

Levelling-up Secretary Michael Gove has promised "radical action to unlock the supply of new homes", with a commitment to build one million new houses over the course of this Parliament.

Since 2010/2011 the number of people living in temporary housing has doubled to almost 100,000 households, not only consigning many of them to substandard living conditions, but costing local councils £1.6bn a year. How do we escape this housing purgatory? Andrew Kersley reports.

From celebrating NHS champions at Downing Street, to meetings on new plant genomic techniques at the European Parliament

In a new occasional series, Seun Matiluko catches up with politicians to discuss faith and how they balance religion with politics. Here, Afzal Khan, Labour MP for Manchester, Gorton, talks about his journey with Islam.

Among the Union Jacks flying proudly alongside stone cottages in the rural villages of Somerton and Frome, a scattering of tangerine Liberal Democrat signs has emerged in the once “true blue” constituency.

School reform over the past 30 years has significantly changed the school system. We have seen a shift from schools having little autonomy, and being part of a tightly knit local authority school system, to one where schools have greater freedom but have no obligation to be part of any wider local school system: from low school autonomy and a strong school system to higher school autonomy and a weaker school system.

Earlier this year, the government announced how £2.1bn of the Levelling Up Fund has been allocated. The aims of the funding are to “create new jobs, drive economic growth, help restore people’s pride in the places where they live, and spread opportunity more equally”.

Veterans Aid and Staffordshire Police have signed a partnership agreement in recognition of how working together can expedite the delivery of speedy intervention and support to veterans in crisis.

I find myself in an almost constant state of despair when I consider the way in which this nation is being run, especially when it comes to hideously blighted towns and cities, dereliction, vandalism, the destruction of fine old buildings which seem to have a habit of ‘going on fire’ as though they spontaneously combust, when it is certain they have been deliberately torched, and a great deal more.

I am truly honoured and excited to be taking up my role as Chair of the Local Government Association at our Annual Conference today.

CEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy (UK) has been appointed to a new post at the World Veterans Federation. In his unique role as Head of the organisation's Wellbeing Division he will advise  members on the development of veteran-centred wellbeing  worldwide

In 2021, the National Federation of Builders (NFB) House Builders Association (HBA) wrote to the Government to recommend five reforms that would not only retain existing social housing but increase social housing stock too

Inequalities between people and places are major and persistent challenges for the UK. Yet decades of policy interventions have largely failed to close the gaps that exist between different groups. Now a major new publication by Policy@Manchester, The University of Manchester’s policy engagement institute, suggests that embedding change needs to start with the local.

Today sees the Holocaust Memorial Bill return to Parliament for its Second Reading.

Housing matters everywhere in the UK but issues differ, particularly in Northern towns and villages.

Some of the UK’s top charities have secured vital funding after bookies handed over a huge donation following the flagship Britannia Stakes race at Royal Ascot.