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1 Nov 01
Local authorities need to address the failings rampant in the administration of housing benefit as poor management is causing hardship for claimants, according to the Audit Commission.
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1 Nov 01
The political future of Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish was under threat this week as a police investigation began into what he called an 'error' over income received from a tenant for space...
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25 Oct 01
Who said politics is no longer about ideas?
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18 Oct 01
Newcastle City Council's controversial plans to involve the private sector in service provision have suffered a double blow.
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11 Oct 01
The Housing Corporation is to make housing in the countryside a priority.
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11 Oct 01
As the prime minister embarks on his mission to change the world, it seems appropriate that his junior colleagues are left with the more mundane task of reconstructing Britain.
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11 Oct 01
Milton Keynes Council and Northamptonshire County Council were this week pushing the boundaries of strategic partnerships after agreeing a short-list of private companies to merge their support...
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11 Oct 01
Fourteen councils have bid to set up arm's-length management companies as an alternative to transferring their houses to a new landlord.
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4 Oct 01
The Audit Commission's role in auditing the health service comes in for some sharp criticism in a new report published this week.
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4 Oct 01
Public-private partnerships suffered a new blow this week when the London Borough of Brent rejected a multimillion pound Private Finance Initiative education project because it did not provide value...
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4 Oct 01
Increasing numbers of housing associations are exceeding the government's rent rise targets.
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4 Oct 01
Fewer people are crossing local authority boundaries to be housed by a registered social landlord.
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27 Sep 01
Cynics who criticised a proposed race equality code of practice for RSLs have been largely silenced, according to the chair of the inquiry team that drew it up.
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27 Sep 01
Housing stock transfers have become too process-driven and do not provide enough choice for tenants, social landlords at the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham were told.
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27 Sep 01
Public transport emerged as the biggest winner in next year's Northern Ireland spending plans, announced this week by Finance Minister Mark Durkan.
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20 Sep 01
NHS managers are on course for another row with doctors as the opening shots in next year's pay round were fired this week.
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20 Sep 01
Years of financial mismanagement and political chaos have earned the London Borough of Hackney the dubious distinction of being the first local authority to face a central government takeover.
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20 Sep 01
Nearly half of all council services that have had a Best Value inspection have been judged unlikely to improve or worse, according to the Audit Commission.
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20 Sep 01
New social landlords set up following stock transfers from local councils are being warned against relying on former housing department staff to fill their leading posts.
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20 Sep 01
Sir George Young, the former transport and housing minister, is the early front-runner to replace David Davis as chair of Westminster's principal audit body, the Public Accounts Committee but...
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13 Sep 01
The Northeast will be the focus of the campaign for directly elected mayors, with Prime Minister Tony Blair's constituency Sedgefield confirming that it will join three other neighbouring boroughs...
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13 Sep 01
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
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13 Sep 01
Social landlords are becoming less popular with their tenants, according to a new government survey.
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6 Sep 01
The number of complaints against English councils has reached record levels.
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6 Sep 01
Local authorities have successfully reduced fraud among private landlords applying for grants to renovate homes.
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