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29 Jun 00
The Blair government's determination to downgrade local authorities in favour of control from Whitehall has been likened to Soviet-style centralist rule by the leader of the Local Government...
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29 Jun 00
Home Secretary Jack Straw has criticised local authorities for ignoring requests for accommodation to house asylum seekers as part of the national dispersal scheme.
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29 Jun 00
Ken Livingstone launched a blistering attack on central government's domineering attitude towards local authorities at the LGA conference.
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29 Jun 00
A root-and-branch overhaul of Scottish local government is set to be triggered by the publication this week of the Kerley report on regenerating local democracy.
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29 Jun 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn is to use his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on June 30 to announce an additional £60m investment in information technology for the NHS.
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29 Jun 00
The government must adequately fund the proposed 'right to roam' network or local authorities face a crippling financial burden, the Liberal Democrats have warned.
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29 Jun 00
Greater local freedom is the way ahead for the health service, according to NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton.
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22 Jun 00
The row over whether the NHS should be given full responsibility for the care of the elderly resurfaced this week as the Local Government Association claimed an Audit Commission report backed the...
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22 Jun 00
Globalisation presents economic challenges to local authorities while raising the expectations of the electorate, according to Sir Michael Lyons.
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22 Jun 00
The costs and benefits of projects run by regeneration bodies should be independently audited in future, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
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22 Jun 00
The Rural Services Partnership (RSP) has called on the government to include its demand for a 'rural round-table' as one of the recommendations in a white paper due to be published in the summer.
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22 Jun 00
The government has expanded the specialist schools programme and published research showing that such schools are raising standards faster than their mainstream counterparts.
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15 Jun 00
Knowing they're on the street where you live could save local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales £200m.
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15 Jun 00
The waves of modernisation sweeping through local government are producing far-reaching changes in the way authorities provide services and do business with their partners in the private and...
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15 Jun 00
The Local Government Association has set up its own hit squad to establish how education authorities can intervene effectively to turn around failing schools under their control.
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15 Jun 00
Ken Livingstone has called for the 33 London boroughs to be abolished and replaced with 14 or 15 larger authorities with increased responsibilities, including control of health and transport.
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15 Jun 00
Lord Neill, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, launched a swingeing attack on the government's Freedom of Information Bill at the CIPFA conference in Brighton on June 14.
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15 Jun 00
Integration of health and social services in England came a step closer this week as Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced a new post amalgamating the positions of chief executive of the NHS...
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15 Jun 00
Public sector organisations came out on top in four of the 15 categories at last week's Digital Britain awards organised by Microsoft.
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15 Jun 00
Political leaders could face isolation and have little control over democracy with increasing use of the Internet, Barry Quirk, chief executive of the London Borough of Lewisham, has warned.
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15 Jun 00
The public sector must stop seeing leadership skills as a personality defect, Cabinet secretary Sir Richard Wilson told CIPFA delegates on June 14.
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15 Jun 00
The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has issued its first rating for a local authority in Britain. Huntingdonshire District Council has been awarded a triple-A long-term issuer credit rating.
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8 Jun 00
Local authorities in northern England are counting the cost of massive clean-up operations following serious flooding last weekend. The bill may come to as much as £15m, according to some estimates.
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8 Jun 00
Tony Blair breezed back into Downing Street this week after completing his paternity leave with a vow to sort out the care of the elderly.
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8 Jun 00
Traditional travelling fairs could help trigger an urban renaissance, and local authorities that do not encourage them are 'foolish', according to a new report from MPs.
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