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- In the lead up to an election...
- New Participatory Budgeting leaflet and toolkit produced
- New web pages keep charities up-dated on regulations
- Better Banking Coalition launched
- CLES calls for changes in assessment of local economic development
- Audit Commission consults on strategic plan
- Councils under pressure from ageing population
- Oneplace national overview report published
- Loan Sharks Cost UK's poorest £29m This Christmas
- Framework launched to improve women's position in the workplace
- Empowering Young People Pilots evaluated
- New online guide launched on tackling difference
- Homes and Communities Academy - the name has gone but the work remains!
- New national charity Civic Voice to be launched
- £60m to lay green foundations of eco-towns
- LGiU calls for Section 106 Reform
- Liberal Democrats launch plans to revitalise Britain's high streets
- Conservatives publish planning green paper
- Government brings in Community Infrastructure Levy
- Everything you wanted to know about New Deal for Communities
- Guidance for online councillors
- LGA sets out proposals for a new accountability framework for localities
- Community Enterprise Framework launched
- Conservatives make plans for public sector co-operatives
- John Denham speaks on the leadership role of councils in building recovery
- Getting to grips with the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF)
- Report urges more Government resources for community led initiatives
- Post Office Banking consultation response
- Duty to respond to petitions consultation response
- New scrutiny powers to help residents fix local problems
- New Economic Duty to begin in April
- Denham tells councils: Third Sector important to efficiency
- Action to unlock young people's talent starts
- New research highlights widening gap between cities
- "Locally-democratic" planning proposed by the Tories
- Councils to cut red tape
- Local Carbon Framework pilots announced
- Local powers for councils to improve private rented housing standards
- Report shows little signs of progress in tackling inequality
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Equality Bill consultations
- Government suffers Equality Bill defeat
- A practical guide to revising gender equality schemes
- Fund to divert women away from crime
- Muslim Council state commitment to government
- Local government delivers its verdict on CAA
- Citizenship Survey: April to September 2009, England
- The State of Happiness: how public policy shapes people's wellbeing
- What is the impact of devolution for people and places in poverty?
- National charities criticised for endorsing National Compact
- Gordon Brown sets out vision for "new politics"
- Bank Gifting Accounts proposed for budding philanthropists
- Futurebuilders Fund closes to new applicants
- Number of retiring MPs reaches new heights
- Post Office Banking
- The 2009 Survey of Local Election Candidates
- Councils no longer able to ignore petitions
- The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act
- New regulatory framework for the social housing
- Changes for local allocation of housing
- Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government
- New Local Innovation Awards Scheme
- Awards for councillors
- Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
- £2.6m Christmas bonus for high streets' empty shops
- Post Office to become a ‘people's bank'?
- New eco towns announcement
- Conservative proposals for a ‘Community Right to Buy Scheme'
- Funding for planners to build homes and a low carbon future
- Enquiry into harassment of disabled people
- Stories of resilience from the BME Third Sector
- Strengthening support for BME social enterprises
- Councils need to do more to involve young people
- Voice of Older People report produced
- OnePlace
- Social Enterprise of the Year Award
- New Director of OTS
- Pre-Budget Report
- Building Stronger Communities Taskforce report published
- Online toolkit for participatory budgeting (PB)
- Responses to the 'Reforming Financial Markets' consultation
- Reactions to the cancellation of the Campaigning Fund
- Community Development Finance Association Annual Survey
- Report on 'Duty to Involve' events in Yorkshire and Humberside
- Time off work to take on civic roles
- Connecting Communities plan launched
- Place Survey demonstrates the importance of strengthening local democracy
- Denham cutting national red tape for local authorities
- Councils given the powers to create mutual insuance companies
- Local crime figures at the touch of a button
- Communities in recession
- What do councillors think of the CAA?
- Helping community groups to improve public spaces
- CABE launches Grey to Green
- Government supports markets
- Audit Commission calls on councils to shrink the domestic carbon footprint
- Take up the low carbon communities challenge
- DTA warns the Government over sale of assets
- Funding to prevent exploitation of migrant workers
- Guide for frontline staff on community cohesion
- Youth parliament takes over the commons
- Researching the perspectives of traditional / white communities
- ENRC publishes its disability work programme
- EHRC launches transgender report
- EHRC reports on experience of lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people
- Testing different types of support for VCS support organisations
- Testing policy assumptions around worklessness
- Government produces response to report on Third Sector capacity building
- More community shares projects announced
- Reporting poverty resource pack
- Connecting Communities
- Talking to the community
- Duty to Involve - a quick guide
- Irresponsible Lending consultation response
- HANDY GUIDE + 1
- Comprehensive Area Assessment Guide
- More MAAs
- Total Place Initiative launches website
- Regional Development Agencies under fire from Tories
- Democratic reform campaign launched
- Power to recall MPs to be considered
- From ‘Town hall' to ‘hall way'
- Plan to help homes cut emissions
- Infrastructure Planning Commission Decision Makers Announced
- Want a better quality of life? Well improve the surroundings!
- Survey shows steady growth of development trusts
- Building public support for tackling poverty
- Local Authorities receive fresh cash injection to tackle extremism
- Promoting gender equality in Waltham Forest
- Poverty, inequality and human rights
- OTS head to lead Social Exclusion Task Force
- Need to know about the National Indicator Set?
- Local Authority C0² emission data (NI186) published
- ‘Tackling the Fiscal Crisis: A recovery plan for the UK'
- Communities and Local Government appoint new Minister
- Boost for Social Investment
- Benefit shake-up would slash jobless and child poverty
- Consultation on the Consolidation of Charity Law
- City needs real reform to avoid mistakes of the past
- Banking on Change research report
- Reforming Financial Markets consultation response
- Low Carbon Housing receives investment boost
- Plans for Regional Strategies out for consultation
- Conservatives set out plans for street-level regeneration
- New guidance for working in two and three tier areas
- Revised Compact irrelevant for community-sector
- Polite response to Citizenship Survey
- Inspiring Communities funding announced
- Social housing regulator remit extend to council tenants
- HCA sets out community engagement commitment
- Total Place pilots underway
- Communitybuilders fund opens doors for business
- Research on the impact of central government policy on council reform
- Financial exclusion widens as communities turn to social investors
- Support for social enterprises to secure finance
- Cohesion guidance for local authorities published
- £3m plan to save our high streets
- 300 ideas for Sustainable Communities submitted
- Places Bases Spaces
- Strengthening Local Democracy Briefing
- Building Britain's Future Briefing
- Essential Facts about: Total Place Inititiative
- Strengthening local democracy: Consultation
- NAVCA members survey on LAAs
- LAA tracker
- Localism too narrow
- A study on local authorities’ economic plans
- LAA indicators
- 4 eco-towns proposals accepted
- The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
- Planning consultation
- Infrastructure planning
- An exploration of politicians' attitudes to economic inequality
- The UK housing market and equality
- REACH: Update report
- John Denham speech at the Fabian Society
- An exploration of the underlying 'drivers' of public attitudes towards economic inequality and welfa
- What are the implications of attitudes to economic inequality?
- A minimum income standard for Britain in 2009
- Room for Improvement, Audit Commission report
- Total Place Efficiency Programme
- Directory of Social Change Great Giving Campaign
- Social investment bank consultation launched
- Building Britain's Future
- Compact Refresh consultation opens
- Community Allowance
- The Handy Guide to LAAs
- Duty to Involve Guide published
- Communities in Control progress report
- New Communities Secretary sets out vision for democratic renewal
- Working Neighbourhoods Fund fails to reach third sector
- Citizen involvement in governance report
- Cameron commits to greater empowerment and devolution
- Minister admits devolution has been slow
- ‘Public Service Reform, but not as we know it'
- New Open Space Guide published
- Further calls for Section 106 re-think
- Defra Climate Change Panel members announced
- Equalities Workbook published
- Making the most of Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
- Evaluating empowerment research report
- Social Return on Investment (SROI) Guide Launched
- All Change on Ministerial Merry-Go-Round
- New Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and ‘joint' Ministers
- Government spending on charities figures published
- Recession poses threat to third sector independence
- European Minimum Income Campaign
- Transforming Places Changing Lives- taking forward the framework for regeneration
- 10 things you need to know about Community Reinvestment
- Hazel Blears gives green light to community re-investment proposals
- Government sets out its new regeneration framework
- New body wants to hear your ideas on public sector reform
- How are the RIEPs doing?
- What do a representative sample of 10,00 people think about influence, cohesion etc
- Local spending reports arrangements produced
- NCVO set out local government manifesto
- Essex first to launch a council bank
- Essex takes the lead on a thriving voluntary and community sector
- Places strategy launched
- Reversing the boarded-up shop syndrome
- Asset transfer assistance available
- Pulling planning policy together
- Investing in a low carbon Britain
- Equality Bill published
- Government produces an equalities guide for themselves
- New funding available from EHRC
- Who aspires higher in deprived communities?
- How well are LSPs managing?
- National Third Sector Survey results published
- Total Place initiative
- Politicians want community benefit clauses in public sector tenders
- More recession resisting resources announced
- Government funds support for campaigning
- Boost for Social Enterprise
- Government strategy for VCS organisations involved in culture, media and sport
- Working Together White Paper
- The Killian Pretty Review
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- Community Reinvestment: people-centred finance for the 21st century
- Leading Lights: Research into councillors and third sector representatives in community leadership
- Inspiring Communities: New funding to raise the aspirations of young people
- Strong and Prosperous Communities Final Implementation Plan
- LAA Data 'more than a year late'
- Local politicians unwittingly destroying local organisations
- Revision of LAA targets reveals impact of recession on councils
- Councils back social media drive
- Interested in building a successful, sustainable community in the future?
- New Planning regime begins
- Tories publish Housing Green Paper
- Regeneration Framework - summary of consultation responses
- Urban extensions, planning and participation: new research
- Practical guide for Local Strategic Partnerships and planners
- DCLG toughens playing field rules
- Oxfam says we're becoming a nation of ‘Freds'
- Don't Forget ‘Equalities' in the Recession
- Rights and Responsibilities Green Paper
- Breaking the link between Disadvantage and Low Attainment
- Re-baselining and mainstreaming the non-jargon!
- Third Sector Advisory Body publish Health Check of the Office of the Third Sector
- MPs demand answers on value of ChangeUp and Futurebuilders
- Lack of evidence hinders reductions in health inequalities
- Informal adult learning White Paper: The Learning Revolution
- New Building Stronger Communities Taskforce
- Lottery cash to investigate Compact breaches
- Learning Lessons from Obama's Campaign
- A practical guide to developing your comprehensive community engagement strategy
- FAQs - Essential Facts about: Comprehensive Area Assessment
- Well-being guidance for local councils
- Conservatives prepare to ‘Control Shift'
- Banking may be bad for your health Councils warned
- Reconnecting Citizen and State - community anchors
- Councils across England will receive £100 million to ease the credit crunch
- More financial support
- Local Area Agreements 2009 reward guidance
- Community Planning Benefit in the spotlight
- MPs call for simplicity in planning gain
- Improving space and mental health Case Study
- Tackling race inequalities: A discussion document
- Violence Against Women
- Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society: A third progress report
- Audit Commission Council Assessments Published
- Goodbye CPA, Hello CAA
- Sustainable Communities Act 2007 -- Local Spending Reports Consultation
- Liberal Democrat deputy leader says charities are crucial to economic recovery
- Worklessness Review published
- BIG lottery infrastructure funding announced
- Updated National Indicators for Local Authorities
- Councillor Call for Action guidance published
- Equalities and Human Rights Commissions' Strategic Priorities Consultation
- Control Shift Green Paper Briefing
- Tackling climate change, reducing poverty
- New inspection framework published
- The Credit Crunch and Regeneration: Impact and Implications
- Sustainable energy toolkit for councils
- Results of consultation over proposed Town Centre planning changes
- Councils and third sector organisations collaborating to beat the recession
- LGA unveils anti-recession plan
- Responses to consultation around local accountability consultation
- LGA proposes 'Green new deal' to create jobs in the low-carbon economy
- Equalities and Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan open to consultation
- New report compares community revitalization in the UK and the USA
- New poll shows British institutions need to ‘keep up with Obama generation’
- NAO publishes report on building capacity in the third sector
- Community input delivers better public services
- Hazel Blears on the role of councils in the economic crisis
- Resources for councils to deal with the recession
- Local Government finance settlement announced
- Councils face a duty to carry out Local Economic Assessments
- CABE challenges poor design
- New report paints a picture of a more diverse Britain
- Valuing the BME Third Sector?
- Government commits to disabled people's human rights
- New map shows patchy services for women who experience violence
- Migrant and refugee community organisations influencing policy
- Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises
- MPs call for Section 106 agreements to be used to boost local employment
- Conservatives plan for a low carbon economy
- Citizenship survey shows mixed results around cohesion and empowerment
- Are the white working class Britain's forgotten race victims?
- Third Sector organisations have their say on public sector support
- Building Group calls for suspension of Section 106 agreements
- CABE Light Touch Review and the Government response
- Real Help for Communities - Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises
- More options for sub-regional co-operation to be introduced
- New Opportunities White Paper briefing
- Calls for a Register of Lobbying Activity
- Commissioning: Possible
- Need Not Greed Campaign
- Using research and local information in decision-making
- The impact of the economic downturn on local government finances
- 10 years on from the Macpherson inquiry into Stephen Lawrence murder
- Single group funding guidance shelved
- Cohesion Guidance Published
- Progress report on young black people and criminal justice published
- Inspiring Communities
- Social Mobility, Aspirations and Attainment proposals published
- 2016 zero carbon homes target published
- Revitalising the affordable homes market
- Councillors Survey highlights diversity challenge
- Defending Grants resources published
- Civic Pioneers Case Study Review
- Case study on involving the Third Sector in LAAs published
- Greener planning: new web guidance for planners to tackle climate change
- Changes to LAA Targets will be vetoed
- Lottery Seeks BIG Ideas for their Big Thinking
- Blunkett Sets out Vision to Empower the Third Sector
- Supporting the Third Sector Through the Economic Downturn
- Consultation Launched on Digital Inclusion Action Plan
- ChangeUp to be Evaluated
- Calls to radically reform Regional Development Agencies
- UK Location Strategy Published
- Get Fair Campaigners Call for Economic Recovery Plan
- CABE calls for more ‘Inclusion by Design'
- New Thinking on Inequality and ‘Social Evils'
- Environment Agency Chairman calls for ‘Green New Deal'
- New Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) Launched
- Report calls for councils to speed up planning applications
- Plans for New Neighbourhood Councils Progress
- Mayors, petitions and referendum consultation launched
- Planned Empowerment Legislation Published
- Empowerment Fund prospectus launched
- Shadow Charities Minister stresses difference within the third sector
- New body to support third sector skills announced
- Petition to halt Lottery funds diversion to Olympics
- Better jobs and fairer chances - Social Mobility paper launched
- European Year Against Poverty
- Third Sector Research Centre launched
- Equalities Body consults on future plans
- Call to maintain BME regional network funding
- Defra launch third sector strategy and Greener Living Fund
- Credit Crunch Threatens Community Benefit Agreements
- Climate Change Bill progresses
- Changes made to Planning reform proposals
- £5m to support participation in planning
- Building Democracy Fund winners announced
- No place like home?
- Local Area Agreements must go further to be effective
- Public officials and community involvement in local services
- Participatory Budgeting Strategy
- Proposals for Sustainable Communities invited
- Sustainable Communities Act briefing
- Transforming Place; Changing Lives
- Draft Framework for Regeneration Briefing
- Empowerment Fund Consultation Response
- Third Sector Partnership Consultation response
- Transforming Places, Changing Lives: A Framework for Regeneration
- Principles of Representation: Third Sector Participation in LSPs
- Cohesion Delivery Framework: Overview
- 'Believing in Local Action'
- Lobbying works (sometimes)!
- Tories - party of the poor?
- Government Departments to make three year funding the norm for Third Sector Organisations
- Grassroots Grants distributors announced
- Empowerment in Action: Accountability - Consultation - Leadership
- Community Development Challenge
- On the brink of "No Town Britain"
- Searching for the Impact of Empowerment
- Having a greater say in how the Working Neighbourhood Fund is spent
- The Future of the Compact
- Local Welfare solutions proposed
- New Code of Practice on Consultation
- Local Development Framework (PPS12)
- How Your Council Works – A Handy Guide for Community Groups
- Communities in Control – FAQs
- Communities in Control – analysis
- Communities in Control - Briefing
- Consultation on Greater Citizen Engagement at the National Level
- Incomplete retail policy from DCLG
- Public Space Lessons: adapting to climate change
- Revised Equality Standard
- Local Area Agreement Priorities
- New Coalition To Tackle UK Poverty
- Government Guide to Procurement
- New third Sector Advisory Panel
- Empowerment White Paper
- Government strategy to empower citizens must change or fail
- Planning Bill proceeds
- Putting Planning at the heart of your community
- New Third Sector Research Centre
- How Green are you?
- Compact Consultation
- Guide for volunteers on benefits
- Government announces legislative plans
- Create Consortium calls for Community Allowance
- Commission launch study to find out what makes a successful local Compact
- National Audit Office delays Third Sector Capacity Building Report
- Race equality and cohesion funding awarded to third sector groups
- More Planning advice planned
- Local involvement leads to happier communities
- Empowerment White Paper close to publication
- Third sector campaigns are more effective than the private sector
- Tories set out Third Sector Plans
- Compacts have little impact according to public sector
- Charity Finance Directors plan environmental and social reporting standard
- Conservative's plan to measure social value
- Response to Single Group Funding consultation
- How deprivation affects our attachment to places
- Participatory Budgeting progresses
- Defending Local Grants
- Is This CEN-sible?
- Draft Legislative Programme 2008-2009
- Plan for standard measure of social return on investment
- Participation and Cohesion
- Community Cohesion Contingency Planning and Tension Monitoring Guidance
- Supermarket Competition Commission report published
- Placeshaping: a toolkit for Urban Community Land Trusts
- Democratising Engagement: what the UK can learn from international experience
- Involve appointed to research third sector consultation
- National Survey of Third Sector Organisations scheduled for autumn 2008
- Taskforce to increase black, Asian and minority ethnic women councillors
- Cohesion Guidance for Funders Consultation: Impact Assessment
- Sustainable Development Commission - resources for engagement
- Greener Homes for the Future
- How to develop a local charter - a guide for local authorities
- Guidance produced on Community Governance Reviews
- Unclaimed Assets 2007
- What Future for CENs?
- Community Empowerment Networks research
- Power Pack launched to feed White Paper
- New Deal for Communities funding confirmed for 08-09
- Eco-towns consultation paper
- Changing the way you work - a green guide
- Crisis in Rape Crisis Service
- Equalities body launches YouTube channel
- CLG Strategic Partners funding programme pulled
- Chair of new Third Sector Advisory Body announced
- PB for All - a national Participatory Budgeting strategy
- Sub-national review proposals published
- Eco-Towns Study
- Streets for people, not cars
- Preventing Violent Extremism: Community Leadership Fund Guidance
- National Evaluation of the Capacity Building Programme for Local Government Report published
- The Decline of Local Authority Grants for the Third Sector: Fact of Fiction?
- Unlocking the Talents of our Communities
- Where are the Women in LSP's?
- New Empowerment White Paper to be published
- Small community groups voices 'still not being heard'
- A sense of place: What residents think of their new homes
- Guide to help Green Up Your Office
- Helping to measure a thriving third sector’
- Audit Commission to examine Local Strategic Partnerships
- Freedom of Information website launched
- Leading CEN mystified by impending closure
- LGA establish new Health Commission
- Competition Commission investigates groceries market
- Home Office publishes immigration reform plans
- New standard raises the bar for public services test
- Capacitybuilders announces long-awaited hub replacements
- You've been Quango'd! Mapping Power across the Regions
- Streamlining Local Development Frameworks (LDF) consultation
- Local Charters Pilots
- Sustainable Communities Act 2007: A Guide
- Audit Commission reports on Council performance
- Adventure Capital Fund wins Futurebuilders contract
- LGIU Launch Manifesto on the role of Councillors
- Skills to deliver sustainable communities
- Government responds to Cohesion Commission
- Economic Impact of the Voluntary Sector
- Navca gets £2m to help members win contracts
- Principles of Representation
- Local Area Agreements (LAAs) Guidance
- Action Plan for Community Empowerment
- Third Sector Strategy Discussion Paper
- Planning White Paper 2007
- Third Sector Review 2007
- BME representation in LSPs research
- Sustaining Grants
- Lyons Inquiry into Local Government Briefing
- Urban Forum's Publications
- Impact of LAAs on Community Empowerment Research
- Local Government White Paper Briefing
- Local Government White Paper Analysis
- The Handy Guide to Planning
- Working with Local Authorities Research
- The LSP Guide
- Community Involvement in Planning Research
- Local Petitions
- Out of the SRB, Into the Pot
- Preventing violent extremism: next step for communities
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- US citizens' lead the charge towards better banking
- Chancellor signals his support but a hard slog ahead
- Numbers of ‘unbanked' fall, but celebrating the end of financial exclusion is premature
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- 10 things you need to know about Community Reinvestment
- The Killian Pretty Review
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- Working Together White Paper
- FAQs - Essential Facts about: Comprehensive Area Assessment
- Control Shift Green Paper Briefing
- Real Help for Communities - Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises
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- Transforming Place; Changing Lives
- Empowerment Fund Consultation Response
- Third Sector Partnership Consultation response
- Unclaimed Assets 2007
- Streamlining Local Development Frameworks (LDF) consultation
- Third Sector Strategy Discussion Paper
- Planning White Paper 2007
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- Banking on Change research report
- Places Bases Spaces
- Leading Lights: Research into councillors and third sector representatives in community leadership
- Community Empowerment Networks research
- Where are the Women in LSP's?
- BME representation in LSPs research
- Impact of LAAs on Community Empowerment Research
- Working with Local Authorities Research
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- Out of the SRB, Into the Pot
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- In the lead up to an election...
- New Participatory Budgeting leaflet and toolkit produced
- New web pages keep charities up-dated on regulations
- Better Banking Coalition launched
- CLES calls for changes in assessment of local economic development
- Audit Commission consults on strategic plan
- Councils under pressure from ageing population
- Oneplace national overview report published
- Loan Sharks Cost UK's poorest £29m This Christmas
- Framework launched to improve women's position in the workplace
- Empowering Young People Pilots evaluated
- New online guide launched on tackling difference
- Homes and Communities Academy - the name has gone but the work remains!
- New national charity Civic Voice to be launched
- £60m to lay green foundations of eco-towns
- LGiU calls for Section 106 Reform
- Liberal Democrats launch plans to revitalise Britain's high streets
- Conservatives publish planning green paper
- Government brings in Community Infrastructure Levy
- Everything you wanted to know about New Deal for Communities
- Guidance for online councillors
- LGA sets out proposals for a new accountability framework for localities
- Community Enterprise Framework launched
- Conservatives make plans for public sector co-operatives
- John Denham speaks on the leadership role of councils in building recovery
- Getting to grips with the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF)
- Report urges more Government resources for community led initiatives
- New scrutiny powers to help residents fix local problems
- New Economic Duty to begin in April
- Denham tells councils: Third Sector important to efficiency
- Action to unlock young people's talent starts
- New research highlights widening gap between cities
- "Locally-democratic" planning proposed by the Tories
- Councils to cut red tape
- Local Carbon Framework pilots announced
- Local powers for councils to improve private rented housing standards
- Report shows little signs of progress in tackling inequality
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Equality Bill consultations
- Government suffers Equality Bill defeat
- A practical guide to revising gender equality schemes
- Fund to divert women away from crime
- Muslim Council state commitment to government
- Local government delivers its verdict on CAA
- Citizenship Survey: April to September 2009, England
- The State of Happiness: how public policy shapes people's wellbeing
- What is the impact of devolution for people and places in poverty?
- National charities criticised for endorsing National Compact
- Gordon Brown sets out vision for "new politics"
- Bank Gifting Accounts proposed for budding philanthropists
- Futurebuilders Fund closes to new applicants
- Number of retiring MPs reaches new heights
- The 2009 Survey of Local Election Candidates
- Councils no longer able to ignore petitions
- The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act
- New regulatory framework for the social housing
- Changes for local allocation of housing
- Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government
- New Local Innovation Awards Scheme
- Awards for councillors
- Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
- £2.6m Christmas bonus for high streets' empty shops
- Post Office to become a ‘people's bank'?
- New eco towns announcement
- Conservative proposals for a ‘Community Right to Buy Scheme'
- Funding for planners to build homes and a low carbon future
- Enquiry into harassment of disabled people
- Stories of resilience from the BME Third Sector
- Strengthening support for BME social enterprises
- Councils need to do more to involve young people
- Voice of Older People report produced
- OnePlace
- Social Enterprise of the Year Award
- New Director of OTS
- Pre-Budget Report
- Building Stronger Communities Taskforce report published
- Online toolkit for participatory budgeting (PB)
- Responses to the 'Reforming Financial Markets' consultation
- Reactions to the cancellation of the Campaigning Fund
- Community Development Finance Association Annual Survey
- 2009 Policy Round-ups
- Time off work to take on civic roles
- Connecting Communities plan launched
- Place Survey demonstrates the importance of strengthening local democracy
- Denham cutting national red tape for local authorities
- Councils given the powers to create mutual insuance companies
- Local crime figures at the touch of a button
- Communities in recession
- What do councillors think of the CAA?
- Helping community groups to improve public spaces
- CABE launches Grey to Green
- Government supports markets
- Audit Commission calls on councils to shrink the domestic carbon footprint
- Take up the low carbon communities challenge
- DTA warns the Government over sale of assets
- Funding to prevent exploitation of migrant workers
- Guide for frontline staff on community cohesion
- Youth parliament takes over the commons
- Researching the perspectives of traditional / white communities
- ENRC publishes its disability work programme
- EHRC launches transgender report
- EHRC reports on experience of lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people
- Testing different types of support for VCS support organisations
- Testing policy assumptions around worklessness
- Government produces response to report on Third Sector capacity building
- More community shares projects announced
- Reporting poverty resource pack
- Comprehensive Area Assessment Guide
- More MAAs
- Total Place Initiative launches website
- Regional Development Agencies under fire from Tories
- Democratic reform campaign launched
- Power to recall MPs to be considered
- From ‘Town hall' to ‘hall way'
- Plan to help homes cut emissions
- Infrastructure Planning Commission Decision Makers Announced
- Want a better quality of life? Well improve the surroundings!
- Survey shows steady growth of development trusts
- Building public support for tackling poverty
- Local Authorities receive fresh cash injection to tackle extremism
- Promoting gender equality in Waltham Forest
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