Youth unemployment has halved since 2010, according to today’s employment figures from the Official for National Statistics. The proportion of young people who are unemployed is at a new record low, as more than 120,000 more young people have a job than in 2010. At
As the country rallies to promote our shared values through Hate Crime Awareness Week, the Home Office and the Ministry for Communities, Housing and Local Government has today (Tuesday 16 October) published an update to the Hate Crime Action Plan. These new measures include: wide-ranging
In new measures announced today, the Government will make it easier for smaller community and commercial radio stations to broadcast on small scale digital radio multiplexes. With more than 50% of all radio listening in the UK now on digital, the new lighter touch licensing regime
For the first time in the UK, expert doctors have been given the option to legally issue prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines when they agree that their patients could benefit from this treatment. The law change, laid in Parliament today, came after the Home Secretary, Sajid
A series of measures to tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace will be announced by Prime Minister Theresa May today – exactly one year after the government published the findings of a world-first Race Disparity Audit on how people of different ethnic backgrounds are treated
A property company developing a scheme in the borough has agreed to pay Camden Council an additional £3.5 million in Section 106 payments, to be used for affordable housing. The developer Regal Homes had initially claimed that following a financial viability review of the multi-million
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has revealed the first projects to be supported by a £112 million investment fund, generated from growth in business rate receipts in the capital. Part of the funding announced today will go directly into the Mayor’s already established Good
London Councils has welcomed the Prime Minister’s speech to the National Housing Federation, in which she reiterated her commitment to fixing ‘our broken housing system’. Cllr Darren Rodwell, London Councils’ Executive Member for Housing and Planning, said: “The announcement of £2bn of extra funding for housing associations
The UK has joined forces with Egypt, the United States and a number of other countries in the Exercise Bright Star as part of its military cooperation. British Defence Attaché, Colonel Ed Sandry said: Egypt and the UK continue to work closely together in the
Five organisations in England have been awarded £489,050 from a new government start-up fund to help people who have taken lengthy career breaks to care for others get back into work, the Minister for Women Victoria Atkins announced today (22 September). In the UK, nine