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Anti-social success

21 September 2011

Family intervention projects (FIP) have delivered an average 84% reduction in anti- social behavi...

Direct approach could encourage mayoral ambition

21 September 2011

Directly-elected police commissioners are likely to stimulate the public appetite for directly-el...

Failures 'may lead to more disorder'

21 September 2011

Failure to assist ‘socially-isolated’ communities could lead to further riots across England, a s...

Open for inspection

21 September 2011

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC, which boasts as being the nation’s most transparent, has joined the l...

Presidential move

21 September 2011

Chief executive of Coventry City Council, Martin Reeves, has been chosen as the first honorary pr...

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Money Matters

20 September 2011

This has been a bad day… meetings and briefings about the impact of the Governments’ Resource Rev...

Means testing no longer a contentious issue.

20 September 2011

Jonathan Werran looks at how in the past means testing was an issue that would mobilise huge marc...

The right direction for the national planning framework

20 September 2011

Martin Horton looks at the key details of the proposed National Planning Framework announced by t...

Ministers lose power to pass EU fines to councils

By Heather Jameson | 20 September 2011

Ministers will be prevented from arbitrarily passing on EU fines to councils under concessions to...

Officials blamed for £500m fire centre failure

By Jonathan Werran | 20 September 2011

Peter Housden singled out by MPs for emerging from the failed FiReControl project with his career...