Rise in number of Covid-19 deaths cause for concern
The NHS confederation said the government must ‘think extremely carefully’ about its next steps as the number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 rises and the variant first identified in India continues to spread.
Levelling up strategy ‘favours prosperous rural areas over deprived communities’
The House of Lords’ public services committee has warned that deprived communities will be ‘short-changed’ and inequality will grow if money for the NHS, schools and councils is not protected and ‘levelling up’ plans are not better targeted.