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Local councils given duty to house domestic abuse survivors

Local councils will be legally required to offer tailored accommodation-based services to domestic abuse victims ...

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Philadelphia: the innovative city

Philadelphia has been the latest stop on my tour of cities in the United States ...

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Let the industrial north prosper again

Britain’s industrial communities can also be part of the solution to narrowing the widening north-south ...

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Public procurement can tackle youth unemployment

A new report offers many practical examples of how clauses inserted into any public procurement ...

Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Social enterprise needs funding too

There needs to be a clear statement - and this is one we are keen ...

Communities Economic Development Finance Local Government Regeneration

‘Double devolution’ should be centre stage

Given the current financial and social environment, local political leaders have to be ready to ...

Economic Development Local Government

Public spending: it ain’t just about efficiencies

Procurement should not be a narrow corporate function restricted to local government, nor is localism ...

Local Government Regeneration

What would council tax reform mean for people and places?

It is clear that no major political party has an appetite to properly address the ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government

The beginnings of a local minimum wage movement

The article in last month's Observer by Gavin Kelly describing the grassroots movement in Seatac, ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Support for those who need it most? Not if the local welfare provision grant is abolished

Residents affected by the abolition of the local welfare provision grant are the same residents ...