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Business rate tweak 'could pay for Dilnot'

12 October 2011

Deputy chairman of the LGA's community and wellbeing board says localisation of council business ...

HEALTH

Booze culture takes a toll on Manchester

12 October 2011

Rising rates of alcohol abuse – has emerged from an annual 'state of the city' report into Manche...

Parishes fail to return returns

12 October 2011

Twenty-nine parish councils have 'failed in an important and statutory duty' the Audit Commission...

Expert help for social workers

12 October 2011

Birmingham City Council has launched a pioneering academy for newly-qualified and experienced soc...

Rethink timing of welfare reforms say MPs

12 October 2011

Influential committee of MPs has warn ministers need to reconsider their timetable for decentrali...

Whitehall 'must back' problem families unit

By Dominic Browne | 12 October 2011

Local Government Association chair, Sir Merrick Cockell, calls on Whitehall departments to suppor...

A party favourite

12 October 2011

The Conservative Party will return to Manchester for its 2013 and 2015 conferences, after high nu...

Park homes 'legacy

12 October 2011

A planning application to build 6,800 new homes in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was submitted...

model.' QE 'is inefficient'

12 October 2011

The Bank of England’s £75bn quantitative easing (QE) programme has been severely criticised by C...

Land target claim

12 October 2011

Grant Shapps, has claimed the Government is already halfway to meeting its target of releasing fo...