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.
Simon Jenkins and Tony Travers write: Another shadow chancellor promises to rescue the nation’s finances by “a radical reform in delivering public services”. A thousand heads hit the breakfast table with a clunk.
Serco has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) to run the capital’s cycle hire scheme across nine of the most central boroughs. The firm said the contract was worth approximately 140m over its initial six years.
We propose a transfer of responsibility from the Government over the commissioning of non-emergency patient transport services (PTS), which would see Essex PCTs and ECC become jointly responsible for the commissioning of these services.