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19 Oct 00
Local Government Association chair Sir Jeremy Beecham has launched a renewed defence of the public service ethos and the value of 'vigorous local democracy'.
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19 Oct 00
The government has beefed up the Local Government Modernisation Team with the appointment of eight new members this week.
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19 Oct 00
Ex-offenders should be treated as priority cases for housing rather than automatically excluded from council waiting lists, it was claimed this week.
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19 Oct 00
Some Scottish councils are lagging behind in the Best Value regime, according to the Accounts Commission in Edinburgh.
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19 Oct 00
Best Value is a success so far and should promote a steady improvement in council services to the public, says the Audit Commission.
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19 Oct 00
A high-profile authority chief executive has warned that the advent of regional assemblies may lead to a dramatic down-sizing of local government.
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19 Oct 00
The government is to invest £82m in a new literacy and numeracy scheme for 11 14-year-olds, Education Secretary David Blunkett announced this week.
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19 Oct 00
The chair of the body set up to examine how contracts are awarded under Best Value has reassured local authorities they will not have new regulations forced on them.
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19 Oct 00
Edinburgh University is attempting to stave off a projected £3m annual shortfall in funding by raising a £40m bond issue.
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12 Oct 00
In politics, appearance is everything. With a general election looming, ministers have their beady eyes trained on the all-important National Health Service.
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12 Oct 00
The King's Fund is to lead a drive to boost the professional standards of health advocates in London. The aim is to ensure people from ethnic minorities have proper access to NHS services. The health...
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12 Oct 00
Audit Commission controller Andrew Foster this week called for a radical streamlining of NHS audit and inspection in order to drive out inefficiencies and duplication in the current system.
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12 Oct 00
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has broken public sector pay barriers by offering up to £2m over four years to lure 'the best in the world' to London's top transport job.
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12 Oct 00
Ministerial interference in next year's finance settlement is threatening to divide local government, with London boroughs accusing the government of trying to cheat them out of £49m to placate its...
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12 Oct 00
Home Secretary Jack Straw has distanced himself from a report which calls for the merger of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
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12 Oct 00
Local government needs to ditch its narrow-minded approach to partnerships, local government minister Hilary Armstrong warned this week.
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5 Oct 00
Hospital workers in Dudley have launched a fifth round of industrial action in protest against plans to outsource staff in an £88m Private Finance Initiative project.
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5 Oct 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn ushered Best Value into the NHS last week, abandoning almost two decades of compulsory market testing in support services such as cleaning and catering.
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5 Oct 00
Management's annual conference in Harrogate that Michael Portillo's proposal to boost overall health care spending by removing taxes on private health insurance 'shattered the postwar consensus on...
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5 Oct 00
Education minister Jacqui Smith is preparing to eat her words this week as the government maintains its increasingly desperate attempts to keep Pimlico School's ailing Private Finance Initiative deal...
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28 Sep 00
The European Commission has accused the government of breaking European law over the controversial Pimlico school Private Finance Initiative in a move that has wide-ranging repercussions for other...
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28 Sep 00
A second-term Labour government would expand the role of regional development agencies and boost their funding to encourage investment and kick-start regeneration in deprived areas.
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28 Sep 00
Scottish Permanent Secretary Muir Russell has challenged arguments by auditor general Bob Black which dispute the former Scottish Office's choice of a construction management contract system for the...
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28 Sep 00
A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
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28 Sep 00
Local authorities are being urged to press ahead with setting up arm's-length housing management companies 18 months before they will be allowed to spend any extra money on their stock.
19 Oct 00Local Government Association chair Sir Jeremy Beecham has launched a renewed defence of the public service ethos and the value of 'vigorous local democracy'.
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