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The last resort

27 March 2008

Latest research shows councils are increasingly less keen to go to court, and try other avenues f...

WHITEHALL

On commission

27 March 2008

Essex CC set up a commission to evaluate its waste-management programme. Neil Kinghan looks at ho...

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Sorry is the hardest word

27 March 2008

Community safety partnerships are increasingly using restorative justice as a cost-effective way ...

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Brown's pledge over local policing teams

27 March 2008

PM Gordon Brown has pledged to take neighbourhood policing contracts nationwide as part of Labour...

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District View

27 March 2008

Embracing the agenda as leaders of ‘places’, local authorities do have a useful tool up their sle...

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Bobby is on the beat

27 March 2008

As the LGA argues for more councillor control over the police, police authorities chair Bob Jones...

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Will Hampshire's new senate see off the unitary threat?

27 March 2008

County leader Ken Thornber’s revolutionary concept of a public services senate for Hampshire beco...

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Plugged In

27 March 2008

Recent experiences suggest that ‘satisfaction’ is seen as top of the performance tree, a position...

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Soap Box

27 March 2008

What the public think of local public services will matter more in future...

BUSINESS

Cardiff's hi-tech playtime

27 March 2008