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COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS
Council homes reserved for the workers
Around 20 per cent of council-owned houses in Southend are to be reserved for people who have jobs
''Firm up councils' health equality duty''
The lack of statutory duty on local authorities to reduce health inequalities is worrying, says Lord Victor Adebowale
Rochdale council loses data on 18,000 residents
Council breaches data laws after losing memory stick with data on thousands of people, says ICO
£1.4bn ''boost'' for Scotland's infrastructure
A building programme is said to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds and create over 17,000 new jobs
Localism: disjointed... ad hoc... idiosyncratic
A senior Labour MP claims the coalition's inconsistent approach to decentralisation is alienating local authorities
LATEST COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FEATURES
Why can't health and social care get it together?
Integration is the buzz word but the introduction of commissioning into the NHS and further budgets cuts in local government and health will undermine any attempts at making the system work better, argues Blair McPherson
Challenging youth behaviour: time for a different approach?
Traditional youth services are under pressure not just from cuts, but a belief in some quarters that they did nothing to challenge the attitudes and behaviour that fed into the summer riots, Chris Ames reports
Can-do Canada
The Canadian Government is dedicated to building a genuine knowledge-based economy, as Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear explains
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