The number of Staffordshire children being educated at home has doubled to more than 2,000 since the Covid-19 pandemic, new figures show.
Police community support officers have voted in favour of strike action in a row over shift changes.
A standards panel will consider a complaint against an elected member for the second time in seven months.
Staffordshire Police has failed to meet its special constable recruitment target – despite taking on more than 50 neighbourhood officers.
A departing Staffordshire County Council officer received an exit package totalling £455,000, figures have revealed.
Staffordshire Commissioner Ben Adams has warned that a major shake-up will likely mean “the end of Staffordshire Police”.
A former Reform UK county councillor insists she left the party before she was suspended over “unacceptable” tweets.
The deputy commissioner of Staffordshire has been fined after driving an untaxed car for three months.
Reform UK has declined to say why a councillor who was at the centre of a racism row is no longer in the party – just weeks after he was elected group leader.
Inspectors say there has been a “significant improvement” in the way a council responds to concerns over vulnerable children.
Staffordshire County Council’s acting leader has hit back at claims there has not been enough scrutiny of Reform UK’s first budget at the authority.
Councillors have called for greater scrutiny of a proposed £840million budget for the next year.
