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A bigger hearted society?

17 August 2011

There is a healthy appetite for community engagement and volunteering, as communities are showing...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Building on the Peckham 'Peace Wall'

17 August 2011

We need rebuild our communities and understand why people went on the rampage with no thought of ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

We do it our way!

17 August 2011

Wokingham is tackling local issues by putting the community in charge of deciding priorities, exp...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Mutual interests

10 August 2011

Jonathan Werran meets Jesse Norman MP, chair of the influential all-party parliamentary group on...

FINANCE

In praise of bean counters

10 August 2011

Wholesale dismantlng of inspection regimes could leave us without vital yardsticks to measure per...

FINANCE

Adapting to change

10 August 2011

Local authorities will be very different organisations in five years time, predicts Paul Bettison.

HEALTH

Maintaining home comforts

By Lord Best | 09 August 2011

Better levels of housing support would help older people to stay in their own homes for longer an...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Legal team courts success

By Mark Conrad | 09 August 2011

Hackney LBC’s legal services staff have just scooped The MJ’s Excellence in Legal Services Achiev...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The sharing role in localism

09 August 2011

Steve Knights reports on the findings of The MJ/Steria survey into councils’ views on how shared ...

FINANCE

Wanted: Bright ideas by councils

By Dermott Calpin | 05 August 2011

Dermott Calpin reports on a recent, detailed analysis of applications for the Creative Council pr...