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BUSINESS

International trade boosts firms' profits by one-fifth

09 March 2011

Construction firm, Balfour Beatty, and services company, Serco, have delivered strong annual resu...

HEALTH

MPs' support for social worker role welcomed

09 March 2011

The College of Social Work (BASW) has welcomed the news that MPs will debate its plans for a gove...

HEALTH

Portsmouth has success in its sites

09 March 2011

Portsmouth City Council’s new social care website has attracted more than 3,000 hits since it was...

HEALTH

Foundation trust may face action over its mental

09 March 2011

The Care Quality Commission has demanded that Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trus...

WHITEHALL

Getting a rough idea

09 March 2011

Bristol City Council’s current and former cabinet members for housing have slept rough to raise a...

Welfare 'camps' fear

09 March 2011

Housing benefit reform could cause ‘transient camps’, according to leader of St Helens MBC, Cllr ...

Bosses' posts axed

09 March 2011

New Forest DC has announced it will make three of its senior managers redundant, as part of its s...

WHITEHALL

High-level group will boost community budget plans

09 March 2011

The Government has agreed to set up a ministerial steering group to push through community budget...

WHITEHALL

Pressures build as rising oil prices add to woes

09 March 2011

Council chiefs have warned that cash-strapped local authorities are being put under even greater ...

WHITEHALL

Code needed 'to protect councils' freedoms'

09 March 2011

A statutory code is needed to safeguard the legal position and freedom of councils within the UK ...