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Rough sleepers to be offered 'route off the streets'
POLICY AND POLITICS

Rough sleepers to be offered 'route off the streets'

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2026

The Government has announced that everyone sleeping rough this winter will be offered a ‘route off the streets if they need it’.

POLICY AND POLITICS

As London's rough sleepers drop by 10% – can Burnham make that figure national?

By By Dan Peters | 13 August 2026

In his first speech after taking office, standing on the steps of Downing Street, Prime Minister ...

HOUSING

Will Burnham's drive to build homes be successful?

By David Blackman | 28 July 2026

Like several Prime Ministers before him, Andy Burnham has pledged to build new homes. That will n...

FINANCE

Social care is main driver of councils' emergency funding requests

By Ann McGauran | 27 July 2026

Social care is ‘taking centre stage’ as the main factor driving councils’ requests for exceptiona...

FINANCE

Councils' financial pressures: The story behind rising EFS demand

By Joanne Pitt | 27 July 2026

Analysis by CIPFA of requests by councils for exceptional financial support (EFS) shows some are ...

IMPROVEMENT

Is public service delivery really dead?

By Ben Page | 22 July 2026

Performance alone does not win public trust. While better outcomes matter, public opinion is shap...

HOUSING

London councils launch affordable housing legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 24 June 2026

Three London councils have launched a legal challenge to stop Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan’s cu...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Farage announces social housing foreigner ban

By Joe Lepper | 15 June 2026

Foreign nationals would be banned from social housing under a Reform UK government, party leader ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Home Office warned over asylum homelessness risk

By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026

The Government risks undermining its own ambition to cut homelessness unless it urgently strength...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Manchesterism owes more to joint working than to one man

By Heather Jameson | 21 May 2026

Manchesterism is 'not what Burnham has achieved, it is what the combined partnership working of l...

HOMELESSNESS

Death prevention duties

By Gill Taylor | 29 April 2026

Relationships between coroners and Safeguarding Adults Boards are often inconsistent and unclear,...

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