Councils in North Kent, the West Midlands and the West of England are today being given new freedoms and powers to work together to improve employment, skills, housing and transport in their regions, announced Communities Secretary John Denham.
A Whitehall report provides strong evidence that the weakest and most vulnerable are likely to suffer first from spending cuts. The restrictions mean that by next spring about 600,000 elderly will have lost the right to free home help since 2006
Almost 4,000 homes will be paid for every kilogram of recyclable waste that they place in the correct bin. Rather than fining or lecturing people who do not recycle, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is taking the alternative approach of rewarding those who do.
Controversial plans to decentralise the welfare state by giving councils the right to set their own regional levels of benefit rates are being considered by the Tories
Jill Stannard, the acting chief executive of Cumbria county council, which was one of the first areas to embrace the concept of Total Place, says it is already making a difference – even if the quantifiable results are modest so far
The Conservatives have wrested control of Scotland Yard from the Home Office and now have its top officers working to their agenda, a senior aide to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has told the Guardian.
Oxford City Council says it is the first council in England and Wales to launch proposals for a commercial-scale wind turbine on its land. The council has picked out a potential site and it is hoped a planning application will be submitted by 2011.
Nearly two-thirds of council housing tenants get all their rent paid by the taxpayer, it was revealed yesterday by a report from the National Housing Federation (NHF).
An adult social services outrage on a par with the Baby P tragedy is bound to happen without urgent reform to the current system, Britains largest public-sector union has warned.
Plans to build thousands of new social homes will have to be abandoned because of the Governments decision to cut the amount tenants will have to pay in rent next year.