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31.08.10 Grant Shapps: Bypass Whitehall and scrap outdated byelaws
27.08.09 Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England 2009-10 provisional outturn
29.08.10 Eric Pickles: Time for a fair deal for the travelling and settled community
26.08.10 Guidance on Carbon reduction is launched
26.08.10 Improving data quality in the NHS
26.08.10 HM Treasury - Rate the ideas received by the Spending Challenge
26.08.10 Local authority non-decent homes: provisional estimates 2009 - 10
26.08.10 North East Telecare Project - Helping older people to stay independent
26.08.10 Unnecessary street furniture is ‘disfiguring’ neighbourhoods
25.08.10 Consultation on Revenue Support Grant Top-Slice for Improvement Services to Local Authorities
26.08.10 Local Authority Non-Decent Homes: Provisional Estimates 2009/10
26.08.10 Safe rooms help stop domestic violence victims becoming homeless
26.08.10 Our streets shouldn't be an obstacle course
25.08.10 Councils get power to decide how best to support service improvements
25.08.10 Improvement Network - Service Improvement and Case Studies
24.08.10 Police stations closure threat
24.08.10 Bradford set for zero carbon social housing
24.08.10 Fears over future of libraries as user numbers fall
23.08.10 BURA goes into voluntary liquidation
20.08.10 Treasury cuts will hit vulnerable, NHF warns
20.08.10 Dog Fouling -Hastings defends ‘offensive’ poster
19.08.10 Bizarre calls to councils released
19.08.10 Council productivity lags far behind private sector, survey claims
18.08.10 Councils clash in lead-up to LEPs
18.08.10 Quarter of staff could go if cuts rely on job losses
17.08.10 The axe comes to local quangos
17.08.10 Will the two-tier code be scrapped?
17.08.10 Wider rental sector key to tackling housing need
16.08.10 Power to local people to preserve village life
16.08.10 Rural communities 'need radical action'
16.08.10 Excluded children among councils’ ‘toughest challenges’
16.08.10 Audit Commission axe ‘ill thought out’
13.08.10 Eric Pickles to disband Audit Commission in new era of town hall transparency
12.08.10 Ministers back ‘John Lewis’ public services
12.08.10 Eric Pickles 'shows us the money' as Departmental books are opened to an army of armchair auditors
12.08.10 Pickles puts department expenses online
12.08.10 Unions set to drop final salary pledge
10.08.10 Grant Shapps scraps 'cosmetic' £5 million Town Hall surveys
10.08.10 Mortgage support cut slammed
10.08.10 Baroness Hanham takes the Spending Challenge to Sheffield
10.08.10 The Neet answer is in the data
09.08.10 Cutting red tape to give a green light for greener development
09.08.10 Household recycling rate nears 40%
09.08.10 More local homes means more rewards
09.08.10 Structural Reform Plans are launched
09.08.10 Council leaders condemn legal limbo of family courts
09.08.10 Household recycling rate nears 40%
06.08.10 'Planning reform must 'not miss bigger picture'
06.08.10 Public health is coming home
06.08.10 Why the White Paper lacks coherence
06.08.10 A recipe for confusion
06.08.10 Lifetime council homes under threat
06.08.10 Councils 'not ready' for the place-based test
05.08.10 Climate change key facts and the business case member workbook
04.08.10 Minister faces criticism over academy numbers
04.08.10 Councils 'not ready' for the place-based test
04.08.10 Grant Shapps: New era of open government will drive innovation in public services
04.08.10 Eric Pickles - replacing bureaucratic accountability with democratic accountability
04.08.10 Grant Shapps: 'freedom pass' for tenants trapped in unsuitable homes
04.08.10 NHS Seeks Healthy Property Savings
03.08.10 Public health is coming home
03.08.10 A recipe for confusion
03.08.10 Why the NHS White Paper lacks coherence
03.08.10 Sector-led improvement case studies
02.08.10 Reference Costs in the NHS
02.08.10 Councils lauded for targeting proceeds of crime
30.07.10 The Coalition: Our Programme for Government on Communities and Local Government
30.07.10 Local referendums to veto excessive council tax increases - Consultation
29.07.10 Local government pensions in England
29.07.10 Ministers seek views to achieve zero waste
29.07.10 Higher staff contributions ‘could ease pensions crisis’
29.07.10 Minister seeks to move beyond ASBO generation
28.07.10 Whitehall officials may be grilled over joint budgets
28.07.10 LEPs be having you
28.07.10 Efficient New Waste Service Set to Save North East £5.2 million
28.07.10 Government ends regionalisation of fire services
27.07.10 Shared Services - A First for Surrey
27.07.10 Business leaders call for regional support
27.07.10 Pickles outlines plans for US ‘super mayors’
26.07.10 Lansley demands immediate reform of inefficient health estate
26.07.10 Ministers urged to import salt to avert winter chaos
23.07.10 Grant Shapps sets out vision to protect and preserve rural village life
23.07.10 Proposed changes to guidance on evaluating the extent of rough sleeping: Consultation
23.07.10 Rough Sleeping England - Total Street Count and Estimates 2010
22.07.10 Communities are ready for the Big Society
21.07.10 OGC to launch re-launch delayed Facilitiies Management framwork
21.07.10 Planning the ‘Big society’
21.07.10 Councils could be paid to scrap fortnightly bin collections
20.07.10 Sustaining value for money in the police service
20.07.10 Government to miss efficiency savings
20.07.10 Why RIEPS have, so far, escaped the axe
20.07.10 RDA's rated highly in final review
22.07.10 Pickles outlines plans to abolish regional government
21.07.10 Critics dismiss ‘Big society’ as ‘cover-up’ for more cuts
20.07.10 BSF Funding – is there a solution?
20.07.10 Ports tax rebate saving threatened industry
19.07.10 Bin taxes consigned to the scrapheap
19.07.10 Litter clean up costs £858m
19.07.10 PM launches ‘Big Society’ plan
19.07.10 Police budget cuts threaten crime fight
19.07.10 Councils scrap plans for 85,000 homes following Pickles letter
16.07.10 Councils to save millions by putting job vacancies online
16.07.10 Public networks may bring superfast broadband to all
16.07.10 Property gains from the ‘green agenda’
16.07.10 RDAs to sell property assets in departmental reform programme
16.07.10 CLG in call for LEPs development
15.07.10 The Public Service Challenge - Implementing the lessons from Total Place
15.07.10 Study backs empty shops for ‘free’ schools
15.07.10 Birmingham faces up to squeeze with £230M savings
14.07.10 Radical devolution needs to start in Whitehall
14.07.10 Part-time public sector workers earning less than £21,000 will have their pay frozen
12.07.10 Council calls for greater financial freedom
09.07.10 Department for Communities and Local Government Resource Accounts 2009-10
08.07.10 CLG Structural Reform Plan
08.07.10 LGA annual conference and exhibition 2010 - changing times, changing minds
08.07.10 Cascade update - National Contract for Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources
07.07.10 Re-engaging young people in education, employment or training
06.07.10 Local Government Association Conference 2010 - Eric Pickles
06.07.10 Revoking Regional Strategies - Eric Pickles
06.07.10 Breaking free from council red tape - Eric Pickles
06.07.10 From sweet FA to Efficiency and Reform Group
06.07.10 GPP EXCLUSIVE: Buildings or staff must go, warns government property adviser
06.07.10 Commission seeks formal climate role for councils
06.07.10 Exclusive: Pickles ponders plan to overhaul LGA
06.07.10 Gareth Jones: The problems of BIG procurement
06.07.10 The internet age will help end the town hall 'non-job'
06.07.10 GPP EXCLUSIVE: Buildings or staff must go, warns government property adviser
05.07.10 Local Government Group branding
05.07.10 Exclusive: Pickles ponders plan to overhaul LGA
02.07.10 Funding for Customer Led Transformation
02.07.10 MYB Intelligence Reports
01.07.10 Fresh fears over jobs losses in wake of Budget
01.07.10 NHS ‘blocks’ Total Place
Other NewsThe Centre is continually receiving requests for information and advice together with suggestions which may be helpful to others. These will appear in the Fortnightly Alerter which is emailed to our full contact list throughout the region as well as communication officers at the other 8 RCE's.
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In development are two further pages. Success Stories describes projects the Centre has supported in Yorkshire and the Humber. Exemplars describes projects from all the English regions which offer useful examples of efficiency gains achieved.