This new report gives an overview of changes resulting from the New Deal for Communities Programme which is designed to narrow gaps between the 39 most deprived localities and the rest of the country.

Nick Oettinger, managing director at R&R Beds, comments on the rise of furniture poverty in the UK and why the public sector needs to do more to help families in need of basic household furniture.

The DETR has received so many letters from people frustrated by their neighbours’ refusal to reduce the height of leylandii and other high garden hedges, that it has produce a guide available on the ...

Public Sector organisations will share in the latest award of funding to improve life in the workplace. Innovation was the key factor for successful bids to the Department of Trade and Industry’s ...

Older people in Wales are to be allowed to use local authority swimming pools without charge in the first national scheme of its kind anywhere in Europe. The Free Swimming pilot will allow anyone over ...

Local government pension funds could soon be made available build more homes, roads or high speed railway under new proposals. The proposals potentially allow councils to double the amount they can ...

Ten local authorities are involved from this week in the next stage of a project looking at how the provision of boarding school places might be used to improve life chances for some vulnerable ...

New research indicates that the public sector may not yet have felt the full impact of the recession. The survey by BT Global Services also reveals that senior executives in the sector are pessimistic ...

NHS trusts wanting to apply for foundation status have been told they will have to “raise their game” to meet new financial diagnostic checks set out by the Department of Health. The new programme ...

Two thousand delegates are expected to attend the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit in January, which will be the largest event of its kind to be staged in this country. The Deputy Prime ...

Harrow Council has completely automated its handling of parking fines by introducing an online appeals and payment process for penalty charges via its website (www.harrow.gov.uk). Since August 2012, ...

Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester explore the competencies – the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising – that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these ...