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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
A £300m, two-year cash injection that will be paid directly to local authorities will go some way to relieving bed blocking, the Local Government Association said this week.
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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
Local government modernisation is being seriously hampered by fears of major job cuts, according to a former high-profile council chief.
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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
Shadow local government secretary Theresa May has pledged that a future Conservative administration would scrap the Government Offices for the Regions and hand their powers back to local authorities.
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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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11 Oct 01
The Audit Commission this week unveiled a new, less damning scoring system for its Best Value inspections regime after a plethora of complaints from councils and a two-month consultation exercise.
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11 Oct 01
Scotland's controller of audit has rounded on Scottish Borders Council for serious financial management weaknesses which led to a £3.9m overspend in education services.
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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
Birmingham City Council faces government intervention after members voted overwhelmingly against holding a referendum on a directly elected mayor.
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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
Brighton's 'Bingate' crisis, which led to the collapse of a multimillion pound private sector deal in the summer, is threatening to escalate again amid fears that the council cannot afford the cost...
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4 Oct 01
The government successfully defused the expected row over privatisation at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton this week with the launch of a three-month review of Best Value in local...
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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
NHS chiefs have called on doctors to vaccinate more than 5.8 million pensioners against flu to try to ease the burden on the health service this winter.
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4 Oct 01
The new arrangements were introduced on October 1, categorising elderly patients requiring long-term nursing care into three funding categories £35, £70 and £110 per week following an assessment...
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4 Oct 01
Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers' promise to conduct a review of the Best Value regime, made at this week's Labour Party conference in Brighton, will be music to the ears of many of those who...
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4 Oct 01
Ministers should take account of local factors before dismissing chief executives of failing NHS trusts, according to a public sector management expert.
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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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4 Oct 01
Teaching unions have dismissed statistics published on October 3 showing a 16% increase in the number of people applying to train as teachers.
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4 Oct 01
Union leaders warned this week that ministers had 'no mandate' to privatise the public services and urged the government to give up its 'disastrous' experiment with the private sector.
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4 Oct 01
Councils have been left floundering by central government's reticence over plans for e-government, according to public sector IT managers.
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27 Sep 01
A surprise bill to grant local authorities more freedom to borrow in an attempt to placate unions and put public services on a more 'level playing field' with the private sector will be severely...
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27 Sep 01
The best NHS trusts will be allowed to set up trading arms to sell services to organisations in the public and private sectors, Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced this week.
11 Oct 01The Housing Corporation is to make housing in the countryside a priority.
