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WHITEHALL

Lawyers rattle sabres over eco towns' legality

12 November 2008

Local government lawyers have accused the Government’s planning policy on eco towns of being pote...

WHITEHALL

Civil servants 'need council experience'

12 November 2008

Local government minister, John Healey, this week fleshed-out his proposal to force senior Whiteh...

WHITEHALL

Europe loves hate project

12 November 2008

Human rights experts from across Europe will hear about the success of Wyre BC’s hate crime proje...

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Treasury 'excludes councils'

12 November 2008

The Treasury has frozen local government out of the new body being set up to deal with the impact...

Mayor poaches Barnet chief

12 November 2008

Barnet LBC is looking for a new chief executive after the current holder was head-hunted by the m...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Fuel victims to get help

12 November 2008

Glasgow City Council will provide a service to help people struggling with fuel poverty, at a cos...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Welfare reforms will hit family life warns expert

12 November 2008

Further pressure will be piled on to extended schools and breakfast clubs, if the Government’s la...

WHITEHALL

'Sloppy' claim dismissed

12 November 2008

Councils have rejected claims by the information security watchdog of sloppy handling of sensitiv...

BUSINESS

Deal pulled as fears grow over Liberata

12 November 2008

A pioneering shared services deal has been delayed, after its key private sector supplier was dro...

WHITEHALL

Social mobility claims premature says expert

12 November 2008

Government claims that social mobility may finally be increasing across the UK’s communities may ...