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22 Apr 2025

The Full Package on Rural Postal Services

Citizens Advice has published a new report, The Full Package: What Consumers Need from a Changing Postal Service, providing detailed insight into how people across…

22 Apr 2025

Will Metro Mayors Deliver for the Countryside?

On Thursday 1 May 2025, voters in parts of England will head to the polls to elect metro mayors for several combined authority areas. These…

22 Apr 2025

New Grants to Drive Innovation on Farms

DEFRA has announced a boost to food security, with more than £45 million in new grants to drive and develop innovative technologies on farms. From…

14 Apr 2025

Elevating Rural Voices: RSN’s Year of Impact

As the national voice championing rural services, the Rural Services Network (RSN) is proud to reflect on a year of meaningful progress, advocacy, and collaboration.…

14 Apr 2025

Call for Urgent Investment in Rural Housing as Crisis Grows

At Current Rates, Clearing Rural Social Housing Waiting Lists Would Take 89 Years. A pioneering partnership between housing and homelessness organisations has launched a report…

14 Apr 2025

Government Sets Out Reforms to Repair Local Audit System

The government has announced a package of reforms intended to address longstanding issues within the local audit system in England, which it describes as “broken”…

14 Apr 2025

Families Waiting Years for Truly Affordable Homes

In communities across England, families in desperate need of affordable housing are now facing waits that stretch decades—often far beyond their children’s upbringing—for a family-sized…

14 Apr 2025

New Plan to Boost Neighbourhood Policing Nationwide

Last week, the government announced a new set of measures aimed at improving visibility, responsiveness, and trust in local policing. As part of the broader…

14 Apr 2025

Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing

Quality of Life Foundation has released new guidance, Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing, which has been developed in partnership with the TCPA, along with  Tibbalds, TRUUD, and Henley Business…

14 Apr 2025

iED in Westminster

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage OBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government, joined around 90 delegates at the Institute of Economic Development (iED)…