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Some recommendations around the need to fundamentally reconnect local government investments with the creation of a civil society, a sustainable environment, and linked to these, a strong local economy....Continue Jun 23, 2009
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Police chiefs ridiculed over `gobbledegook'
Jul 3, 2009 by: Daily Telegraph
Police chiefs have been ridiculed for "inexcusable gobbledegook" for writing a 102-word sentence which "defies understanding. The comment, from the Association of Chief Polic...
Jul 3, 2009 by: Financial Times
The crisis in the public finances will push back the boundaries of the state, allowing the private sector to bid for contracts in areas as delicate as chemotherapy, kidney dia...
No need for elderly to sell home
Jul 1, 2009 by: Daily Telegraph
Elderly people will no longer be forced to sell their homes to pay for care under government proposals to be unveiled next week in a long awaited green paper on tackling the s...
Housing finance system to be 'dismantled'
Jun 30, 2009 by: Local Government Chronicle
The much maligned council housing finance system is to be scrapped, and councils will also be able to keep “all the proceeds” from rental income and sales, says the DCLG....
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