Poverty - Page 29

23 June 2021

Capita outlines five ways to make digital inclusion a reality.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Income gap widest in deprived areas

By Martin Ford | 25 May 2021

The Office for National Statistics found the most deprived council areas have the biggest dispari...

WELFARE

'Alarming' rise in child poverty in North East

By Martin Ford | 19 May 2021

Research has found the top 10 local authority areas with the greatest increase in child poverty w...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Powell becomes shadow housing secretary in mini-reshuffle

By Michael Burton | 10 May 2021

Labour leader Keir Starmer has replaced his shadow housing secretary and brought in a high-flyer ...

EDUCATION

A sense of hope for the future

20 April 2021

The new president of the ADCS Charlotte Ramsden talks to Ann McGauran about her aim of making thi...

LONDON COUNCILS

Casey launches fight against hunger

By Heather Jameson | 08 December 2020

A coalition of councils and charities, headed by Dame Louise Casey, have launched a campaign to s...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Councils are the counterbalance

By Claire Fox | 16 November 2020

Priorities seem to have ‘become skewed by COVID-related policy-making on all sides of politics’, ...

FINANCE

Councils welcome £170m COVID winter grant scheme

By Laura Sharman | 09 November 2020

A new £170m COVID winter grant scheme will be distributed to councils to stop children going hung...

WHITEHALL

£63m hardship fund was not meant to pay for free school meals

By Heather Jameson | 27 October 2020

The £63m ‘hardship fund’ ministers claim should be enough for councils to help hungry schoolkids ...

WHITEHALL

Councils step in after government rejects Rashford campaign

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2020

Councils around the country have quickly stepped in after the Government voted against providing ...

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