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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MLA has brokered an agreement between publishers and library services which allows extended use of free or low cost reference materials. Ten new online resources have been licensed for English public ...

Some one billion pounds of funding from the Private Finance Initiative is helping to deliver the greatest programme of school building and modernization the UK has ever seen. Almost 500 schools are ...

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 ...