National Audit Office

Transport costs for children with special educational needs and disabilities surge.

SEND transport costs surge again as councils warn Budget offers no relief

Current SEN spending is putting councils in a tricky position, the report says

Special education system 'failing' - could next week’s Budget fix it?

Post-Brexit import checks have finally been brought in after repeated delays. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe/Getty

Brexit has failed to 'take back control of our border', report finds

A project engineer checks the paperwork for the installation of a heat pump on a model house (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Government funds free heat pumps for social housing - what are they?

Rishi Sunak refused to fully fund a programme to rebuild England’s crumbling schools, a former senior official at the Department for Education has claimed. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

RAAC: Rishi Sunak 'refused to fully fund school rebuilding programme'

A taped off section inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) Jacob King/PA Wire

Labour plans vote to publish list of schools with collapse-risk concrete

A photo issued by the Local Government Association showing damage to a school built with RAAC. Credit: LGA

Government's own risk level in 2021 highlighted school collapse issue

700,000 children in England attending schools that need major repairs

Home Office ‘long way’ from meeting key asylum targets, watchdog finds

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All the government's targets on walking and cycling 'will be missed'

Labour calls for investigation into Teesworks development

£21 billion in taxpayer money lost since the start of the pandemic

Billions awarded as part of Covid employment support schemes were lost in ‘error and fraud’ (Photo: Getty Images)

Billions awarded through Covid job schemes lost in ‘error and fraud’

Councils have endured savage budget cuts under austerity - so why does the levelling up fund not address local authority finances?

Exclusive: billions cut from council budgets - despite ‘levelling up’

Thousands fewer referrals for suspected cancer during Covid pandemic

Government ‘not fully prepared’ for Covid pandemic, report finds

New funding formula has seen cuts for poorer schools while less deprived receive more (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

New funding formula has seen cuts for poorer schools
More than 30 per cent of the least deprived schools have seen funding increase, while well over half of the poorest schools face real-terms cuts
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595 million later flow tests have not been registered (Photo: Getty Images)

Test and Trace lost track of 600m lateral flow tests in England as 14% go unused

Supporters campaigned for justice for victims of the Windrush generation, as the scandal broke in 2018. (Picture: Getty Images)

Victims of Windrush scandal continue to face long wait for compensation

Members of the public queue to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination centre at the Essa academy in Bolton (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Government did not have ‘detailed contingency plans’ in place for pandemic

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