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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.
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities have voiced fears that next week's Finance green paper will be nothing more than a damp squib with vague proposals designed to smooth tensions until after the General Election.
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14 Sep 00
Nearly three-quarters of London councils have altered their structures to take account of the move towards Cabinet-style decision-making set out in the Local Government Act.
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14 Sep 00
A £1.3m government-funded research programme that will play a key role in deciding how Britain's local authorities meet new tough recycling targets over the next five years has been given away to...
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14 Sep 00
The armed forces will be short of pilots for fast jets until 2012, even if current targets are met, the National Audit Office has declared in a report published this week on the training of new...
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14 Sep 00
Union leaders have launched a swingeing attack on the government's promotion of private sector involvement in public services at the Trades Union Congress in Glasgow.
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14 Sep 00
The government's wider markets initiative is set to take off as departments realise they can retain profits made in joint ventures with the private sector, a seminar was told this week.
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14 Sep 00
Dot.com companies could soon be processing passport applications, driving licences and even benefits under plans to allow the private and voluntary sectors to deliver on-line government services.
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7 Sep 00
The fight against street crime in the West Midlands has been taken to the Internet. Pictures of the 'ten most wanted' suspects in the region have been posted on the West Midlands Police Force website...
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7 Sep 00
Wiltshire this week claimed to be on course to open the country's first custom-built joint communications centre for all three emergency services.
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7 Sep 00
The Local Government Association joined this week's manifesto frenzy in an attempt to halt the government's drive to marginalise councils in the run-up to the General Election.
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7 Sep 00
Council tax should be replaced with a 'fair local income tax' according to pre-manifesto plans from the Liberal Democrats.
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7 Sep 00
The Surrey town of Dorking faces two obstacles as it tries to make its name on the Internet.
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7 Sep 00
The Highways Agency is to spend £1.2bn on new technology to get the traffic on Britain's roads moving more smoothly.
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7 Sep 00
The government's hospital building programme is ill-considered and could create expensive white elephants, a King's Fund report said this week, in yet another condemnation of Private Finance...
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7 Sep 00
Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked the Social Exclusion Unit to work with other government departments to cut rates of reoffending by ex-prisoners.
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7 Sep 00
The Conservatives' opening shots in the coming election campaign, featuring radical plans for change in education and local government, have been greeted with predictably swingeing criticism from...
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7 Sep 00
The public sector has a serious image problem which is discouraging young people from seeing it as a worthwhile career and creating a recruitment crisis, according to the chief executive of the King'...
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7 Sep 00
Doctors and nurses on the verge of retirement are being urged to postpone their departure until next spring to help avoid a winter crisis in the NHS.
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7 Sep 00
Smaller rent increases and new accounting procedures have led to major reductions in the annual surpluses reported by housing associations.
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7 Sep 00
A teaching union claims hard-pressed schools are covering up the true extent of teacher shortages.
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7 Sep 00
NHS trusts and health authorities are to be given a degree of choice in how they approach joint working on basic financial services.
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31 Aug 00
Council social services departments' inability to cope with demand could plunge the NHS into another winter crisis, health authorities and trusts said this week.
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31 Aug 00
The government is to launch a quality strategy for social workers in a bid to raise standards and challenge the negative stereotypes that dog the profession.
14 Sep 00Local 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...
