The Prime Minister said the Government may introduce fixed period tenancies to ensure new social housing tenants can be evicted if their circumstances improve.
Greater direct accountability and community involvement is key to providing services that are efficient and focused on the needs and priorities of service users. But there are challenges with this approach too.
Every British citizen relies on his or her local authority to provide services in the most economic, efficient and effective way possible. Given the complexity and diversity of the services they supply, this is always challenging, but with the £6bn of public spending cuts announced in May, it has probably never been more so.
Localis, the leading independent think tank dedicated to the issues related to localism and local government , has appointed Alex Thomson as its new Chief Executive.
Localis, the leading independent think tank dedicated to the issues related to localism and local government , has appointed Alex Thomson as its new Chief Executive.
Community projects in four parts of the country are to be given help in a bid to kickstart the government’s ?Big Society? agenda, David Cameron will announce today.
The communities secretary has attacked councils for creating “non-jobs” such as cheerleading development officers.
The budget threatened to be eye-watering, and while not insignificant, many of the announcements were less painful that perhaps could have been expected says the author. A lot of the measures seem relatively sensible, tightening of the belt maneuvers rather than swingeing cuts. Indexing benefits and tax credits to CPI rather than RPI is a […]
The Greater Manchester city region has turned its back on the North West Regional Development Agency and instead will develop its own proposals to form a local enterprise partnership to take complete charge of economic development across the city region.
Two London councils are to merge their education services departments in the first deal of its kind in the country.