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The NLGN report, "Shared Necessities: the next generation of shared services", argues that most likely efficiency savings on average a local authority would make by embracing shared services for back-office...

Rather than a top-down prescriptive approach, the plans outlined by Mr Shapps aim to give councils and developers much more flexibility to decide how to meet the ambitious eco-standards. As...

  At the moment local council taxpayers have been left subsidising the costs of dealing with planning applications. Councils have been unable to recover the true costs of applications because...

The National Housing Federation has welcomed the Government’s decision to drop proposals from the Welfare Reform Bill to punish jobseekers by cutting their housing benefit by 10% The Government had...

– with many local authorities feeling compelled to reduce housing care and support services. The cuts announced by the Department for Communities and Local Government include £30m from the Supporting...

The End Of Merkel? The Left Crumbling Over Open Door Migration On January 12, 2016, Posted by, In German Politics, With No Comments Could the end of Angela Merkel be...