WHITEHALL

15-minute care visits labelled inappropriate

By MJ reporter | 28 October 2014

Campaigners have welcomed new government guidelines, which state that 15-minute care visits are i...

HEALTH

Call for national mental health prevention strategy

By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014

The next government should introduce a national strategy to ensure councils work to prevent menta...

PAY

Crisis in care homes, warns report

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 October 2014

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned of a ‘permanent sense of crisis’ in the UK’s care home ...

THIRD SECTOR

IPPR calls on the Government to create Settlement Support Fund

By MJ reporter | 21 October 2014

A leading think-tank has called for councils to be given money from citizenship fees to help prom...

THIRD SECTOR

Eric sparks off

21 October 2014

We will miss him when he’s gone, our common sense communities secretary Eric Pickles. And let it ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Bringing more innovation to the design of early years

By Ella Britton | 17 October 2014

The Knee High Design Challenge has helped social entrepreneurs create innovative intervention ser...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Charity boss to head review of the LGA

By Jonathan Werran | 15 October 2014

Charity boss Dame Clare Tickell has been appointed to head the independent review into the Local ...

THIRD SECTOR

A global problem tackled locally

By Michael Burton | 13 October 2014

Global events can end up as local problems, as the rural district of Fenland discovered when it e...

FINANCE

Leading the place beyond 2015

By Adam Fineberg | 06 October 2014

Councils are working hard to be leaders of place for their communities and, as Adam Fineberg expl...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Questions raised over 'community heroes' pot plans

By Heather Jameson | 01 August 2014

The LGA calls for volunteers to get council tax discounts have been called into question by a lea...

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Head of Community Cohesion

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Brighton & Hove City Council

Principal Planning Officer

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