A gulf is emerging between the party’s populist rhetoric and what it does in practice.
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There are disparities in provision for children with special educational needs across England.
The bill includes a register of home-schooled children.
We don’t know if schools run as academies or by local authorities are better for pupil outcomes.
The previous government’s policy for school improvement focused on multi-academy trusts.
Amid the complete ban on non-statutory expenditure imposed when councils go bankrupt, entire domestic abuse services are at risk of closure. This could have disastrous results.
The government’s desire to tackle England’s housing crisis is encouraging – but this will require a more rigorous approach to the calculation of housing need.
Labour’s first king’s speech for many years was designed to ‘get the country moving again’ - does it have the right ingredients to achieve this?
This service is a good first step towards a one-stop shop for easy access subnational statistics to understand local areas and how they’re changing.
English councils have neither the ongoing funding or the staffing needed to effectively deliver on the government’s economic development promises.
We investigated whether rates of children in care have been growing or falling across all English local authorities according to their party political leadership.
A new study of council financing in Germany, Italy and Japan offers some new ideas for how to solve English councils’ financial difficulties.
Capital-driven regeneration projects rarely deliver because they focus on profit, not local people’s needs.
The UK needs to fix its recycling system for a more sustainable future.
If decision makers don’t have up-to-date information about urban water use and demand, any policies they design are unlikely to deliver for communities or the environment.
If some progress was made in the early 2000s, austerity measures from 2010 saw the push for equality, diversity or inclusion die down.
Domestic violence is a housing issue. Ensuring survivors have access to safe accommodation is key to enabling them to escape.
Pouring money into levelling up won’t work without a rethink of how Whitehall and local government work together
Homelessness among veterans is not as common as the headlines suggest, but leaving the Armed Forces is a difficult process that can lead to housing problems
The public inquiry into Grenfell makes its first report – but those responsible for the circumstances leading up to the fire are yet to face the consequences.
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