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Ken seeks equality

23 November 2011

Labour's London mayoral candidate, Ken Livingstone, has vowed to set up an Equal Pay Commissioner.

FINANCE

Privacy group exposes council data-loss failings

By Jonathan Werran | 23 November 2011

Some 132 councils lost personal information in over 1,000 incidents, including details of 3,100 c...

Corridors of Power

22 November 2011

DCLG senior policy analyst Gavin Smith is enjoying a coffee in the DCLG cafeteria with special ad...

Grabbing a share

22 November 2011

Cheshire West and Chester Council has appointed Ringway Infrastructure Services as its new highwa...

IT's a £34m deal

22 November 2011

Luton Council has agreed a 10-year ICT outsourcing partnership with Civica, which is worth more t...

Academic partners

22 November 2011

Interserve has completed a contract to design and build the new £32m Leeds West Academy for Leeds...

City's on cloud nine

22 November 2011

Sunderland City Council selects IBM to deliver a city-wide 'Cloud' computing system, which will m...

HEALTH

Some communities 'let down'

22 November 2011

Care services minister, Paul Burstow, has accused some councils of failing to pass on the extra f...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Big Lottery's latest steps to social investment

22 November 2011

The Big Lottery Fund has launched a £6m initiative to help develop the English social investment ...

Pickles praises councils for way they handled cuts and summer riots

By Michael Burton | 22 November 2011

Eric Pickles has praised councils for the way they have handled huge cuts in their spending and d...