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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.
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28 Sep 00
A directly elected mayor for just 22,000 people is hardly what Tony Blair had in mind for his new system of political governance, but one of England's smallest boroughs is leading the mayoral race.
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28 Sep 00
A new inquiry has opened into the exams fiasco in Scotland which left thousands of pupils uncertain about their academic futures.
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28 Sep 00
More than one-third of housing association tenants want to move out of their current home, a Housing Corporation survey has revealed.
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28 Sep 00
Morale is plummeting among staff in housing benefit departments because of the crisis over late payments in many local authorities.
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28 Sep 00
The head of the Refugee Council has warned the government that the dispersal scheme for asylum seekers could collapse unless it makes a concerted effort to win the support of local authorities.
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28 Sep 00
Education Secretary David Blunkett moved to appease local authorities this week after the collapse of his Frontline First policy.
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28 Sep 00
The chief executive of the King's Fund has issued a stern warning to Tony Blair and the government to give full and enthusiastic support to the public services. Otherwise, says Rabbi Julia Neuberger...
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28 Sep 00
Child support services are close to collapse in the Vale of Glamorgan, according to a report on the council's social services described by one Whitehall official as 'the most damning we have produced...
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28 Sep 00
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is being strongly tipped in Whitehall for the ill-fated post of 'Cabinet enforcer' if Tony Blair wins a second term in government.
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28 Sep 00
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott faces a barrage of legal and industrial action if he presses ahead with the partial privatisation of London Underground, after an independent report dubbed the...
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28 Sep 00
The Scottish Executive has launched a new 'weekly wage' scheme to try to persuade less well-off pupils to stay on at school after the age of 16.
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28 Sep 00
The majority of voters in London support Ken Livingstone's proposal to introduce congestion charges on roads in the next two years, according to a survey for the King's Fund health think-tank.
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28 Sep 00
Major repair programmes will be slashed and neighbourhood renewal schemes abandoned if the rent income raised by housing associations is seriously reduced, the government has been warned.
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28 Sep 00
The London Borough of Lambeth has been forced to shelve a £440m public-private partnership regeneration scheme after residents voted against it.
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21 Sep 00
Local authorities are gearing up for annual spending spats with schools after the government backed down on its threat for direct education funding in this week's finance green paper.
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21 Sep 00
The Commons' environment committee has criticised the government's decision to go ahead with its controversial plan to part-privatise the National Air Traffic Services before the Swanwick control...
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21 Sep 00
Housing association rents should not be kept artificially high so that registered social landlords can fund activities linked to neighbourhood renewal, housing minister Nick Raynsford warned this...
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21 Sep 00
The former Scottish Office failed to prepare a comprehensive procurement strategy when it began preparations for a new building for the Scottish Parliament, auditor general Bob Black said this week.
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21 Sep 00
The chair of the Commission for Racial Equality has urged funding bodies to ensure that the community and public projects they bankroll are implementing strategies to combat racism.
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21 Sep 00
Tony Blair's plan to give everyone access to NHS dentistry by September 2001 will fail unless more cash is found, the British Dental Association said this week.
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities were trying to pick up the pieces of disrupted services as fuel began to trickle slowly back into garages and council depots after the government's ultimatum to petrol companies to...
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14 Sep 00
The first seven councils to be assessed on Best Value criteria by Wendy Thomson's new local government inspectorate have passed with flying colours.
28 Sep 00Scottish 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...
