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- Is Big Society set for a showdown with the collision government?
- Big Society view from the frontline – Almost a revolution
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- Why we need to reconfigure the Big Society programme
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- Is it better to nudge or think?
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- A briefing on the emergency budget
- Osborne hails ‘progressive budget' but does it stack up?
- Osborne hails ‘progressive budget' but does it stack up?
- Who's who in Government
- The first cut – Chancellor’s public spending cuts announced
- The Queen's Speech
- Community cohesion? Collapse of the far right vote
- Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition: first policy agreements
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- Untold Story of the local elections
- Manifestos in 60 Seconds
- In an election dominated by style, who are the design champions?
- Success of Leaders’ Debate may mean we never see it again
- Four steps to a fairer Britain
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- And They're Off (or how to survive the election campaign)
- Will it be hung?
- Post Bank Plans add another piece to the Better Banking jigsaw
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- Connecting Communities
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- Duty to Involve - a quick guide
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- Essential Facts about: Total Place Initiative
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- 10 things you need to know about Community Reinvestment
- The Killian Pretty Review
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- Working Together White Paper
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- Leading Lights: Research into councillors and third sector representatives in community leadership
- FAQs - Essential Facts about: Comprehensive Area Assessment
- Equalities and Human Rights Commissions' Strategic Priorities Consultation
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- A practical guide to developing your comprehensive community engagement strategy
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- Unclaimed Assets 2007
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- Unlocking the Talents of our Communities
- Where are the Women in LSP's?
- Streamlining Local Development Frameworks (LDF) consultation
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- Public Service Blues
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- Big Society relaunch risks becoming a rehash
- Warm Words Ring Hollow
- Reaction to the Spending Review
- We need LEAPs not LEPs
- Lost: local government – last seen in the vicinity of Big Society – reward offered!
- Optimism amid the dark cloud on the Big Society frontline
- Is Big Society set for a showdown with the collision government?
- Big Society view from the frontline – Almost a revolution
- Why we need to reconfigure the Big Society programme
- Big Society - thoughts from the frontline part 2
- Big Society - the view from the frontline
- Osborne hails ‘progressive budget' but does it stack up?
- Community cohesion? Collapse of the far right vote
- Post-Election tips for community groups
- Untold Story of the local elections
- Manifestos in 60 Seconds
- In an election dominated by style, who are the design champions?
- Success of Leaders’ Debate may mean we never see it again
- Four steps to a fairer Britain
- Invitation to Join the Government of Britain
- A Future Fair For All
- Back to the future
- And They're Off (or how to survive the election campaign)
- Will it be hung?
- Party Promises
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- Creating a culture for climate change!
- Energised Estonia!
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- The small energy cooperatives, Freiburg, Magdeburg
- The 'Green City', Freiburg, Southern Germany
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- Bankers kick back in Davos whilst Parliament debates action on extortionate lending
- Transparency hides a multitude of sins
- How can 60% interest for a credit card be too high, but 60,000% is okay?
- Money men join calls for tougher bank regulation
- Will banking be better in the Big Society?
- Labour bares election teeth to loansharks and predatory lenders
- Could this really be it?
- Budget leaves the door to CRA open
- Blaming people feels good, but is ultimately fruitless
- Better Banking - Too Big To Fail
- When it's rational to be irrational, then you know it's time to intervene!
- Not so much a blog, more a list of today's successes...
- Why we support the Robin Hood Tax campaign
- 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
- Shuffling of papers suggests signs of activity at the Treasury
- PM calls for responsible finance
- Time for Responsible Finance
- What does £140bn buy you these days?
- Stop Attacking Bankers' Bonuses
- Radical thinking, not more of the same
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- Community Reinvestment – learning from the US
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- Finally gone public...
- Community reinvestment progress
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- Microgeneration Strategy and Action Plan
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- Local Referenda Briefing
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Growing the Social Investment Market - the Government's strategy
- Community Organisers briefing
- Neighbourhood Planning: Questions and Answers
- Community Right to Build
- Giving Green Paper
- Community Right to Buy
- Consultation on a Microgeneration Strategy
- Community Right to Challenge
- Decentralisation and the Localism Bill
- Building a Stronger Civil Society
- Open Government Briefing
- Big Society Bank Mini-Briefing
- Quick Guide to the Spending Review
- Supporting a Stronger Civil Society
- National Citizen Service Briefing
- Public Sector Mutuals
- Place-Based Budgeting (Total Place)
- Coalition Government – Structural Reform Plans
- Big Society Bite Sized
- Getting to grips with the coalition government
- Bite Sized Budget Briefing
- A briefing on the emergency budget
- Who's who in Government
- The first cut – Chancellor’s public spending cuts announced
- The Queen's Speech
- Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition: first policy agreements
- Government Response to Post Office Banking consultation
- Post Office Banking
- Connecting Communities
- Duty to Involve - a quick guide
- Strengthening Local Democracy Briefing
- Building Britain's Future Briefing
- Essential Facts about: Total Place Initiative
- Transforming Places Changing Lives- taking forward the framework for regeneration
- 10 things you need to know about Community Reinvestment
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- The Killian Pretty Review
- 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
- New Opportunities White Paper briefing
- Participatory Budgeting Strategy
- Sustainable Communities Act briefing
- Draft Framework for Regeneration Briefing
- Local Development Framework (PPS12)
- Communities in Control – FAQs
- Communities in Control - Briefing
- Unlocking the Talents of our Communities
- Principles of Representation
- Local Area Agreements (LAAs) Guidance
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- Third Sector Review 2007
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- Reaction to the Budget 2011
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- Responding to the Big Society
- Is it better to nudge or think?
- Osborne hails ‘progressive budget' but does it stack up?
- Post Bank Plans add another piece to the Better Banking jigsaw
- Budget 2010 Analysis
- Talking to the community
- Community Reinvestment: people-centred finance for the 21st century
- Communities in Control – analysis
- Is This CEN-sible?
- What Future for CENs?
- Local Government White Paper Analysis
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- Urban Forum response to the Neighbourhood Planning regulations consultation
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- Consultation response on the Sustainable Communities Act regulations
- Urban Forum evidence to regeneration inquiry
- Written evidence to the Localism Inquiry
- Consultation response on the Community Right to Challenge
- Consultation response on the Community Right to Buy
- Consultation response on Best Value Statutory Guidance
- Consultation Response on a Microgeneration Strategy
- Supporting a Stronger Civil Society consultation response
- Consumer Credit Review Response
- Response to Stronger Civil Society consultation (Q9)
- Post Office Banking consultation response
- Duty to respond to petitions consultation response
- Irresponsible Lending consultation response
- Reforming Financial Markets consultation response
- Equalities and Human Rights Commissions' Strategic Priorities Consultation
- 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
- Handy Guides
- Urban Forum Guide to Community Resilience
- Local Action - The handy guide for communities working with councillors
- How Your Council Works – A Handy Guide for Community Groups
- A practical guide to developing your comprehensive community engagement strategy
- The Handy Guide to LAAs
- Defending Local Grants
- Sustaining Grants
- The Handy Guide to Planning
- The LSP Guide
- Reports
- Community Rights and Neighbourhood Planning: What community activists are saying
- Bridging The Mismatch
- Local Democracy Revisited: The changing role of local councillors
- The use of computers, the internet and social media in the VCS
- The changing role of Local Councils and Councillors
- Involving Communities: A Legal Duty?
- Community Power Empowers
- Involvement Case Studies
- Citizens and Local Decision Making
- Report on 'Duty to Involve' events in Yorkshire and Humberside
- 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
- Community Involvement in Planning Research
- Out of the SRB, Into the Pot
- Policy & Research
- Our Research
- VCS Tales
- Policy Round Up
- Big Lottery Fund consultation
- Councils to start implementing 10% cuts in council tax benefit
- Councils to start keeping business rates
- Social impact bonds
- Work Programme targets - can they be met?
- Rising unemployment
- Bank reform proposals could be kicked into the long grass
- Dale Farm campaign to stop evictions
- Clegg sets up victims panel
- New research into the causes of the riots
- Police and thieves
- Call for evidence on social mobility and child poverty
- 1920s style drop in living standards
- What kind of driver are you?
- Greenpeace takes Government to court over nuclear expansion policy
- Community energy project in Big Society vanguard authority
- DECC announce Energy Bill consultation this autumn
- More scope for meanwhile use of empty shops
- FixMyTransport
- Live Entertainment Licence for the chop
- Rethinking public services
- Big Society ‘should be Labour territory’
- Councils offered £250m for weekly bin collections
- Government responds to Select Committee's Localism Report
- Accountability and decentralisation
- Right to Buy revived
- Empty homes funding opened to VCS
- Civil servants lack skills to deliver Big Society
- ‘Big Society Vanguards’ share their stories
- Open data guidelines for local authorities
- Open data and measuring Big Society
- £24m Social Action Fund launched
- Community Organiser hosts selected
- Community First Fund launches
- Planning policy becomes a political football
- Fruitful reading on community orchards
- Neighbourhood councils back better evidence in local planning proposal
- What do we know about community assets?
- Pathways Through Participation final report published
- Call for Human Rights Act abolition
- National Citizen Service 2012 providers announced
- Final Citizenship Survey findings published
- Nudges team publish progress report
- PM regrets telling female MP to ‘calm down dear’
- Treasury offer cash to local authorities to freeze council tax
- Public favour ethical investment
- Government under pressure to establish growth strategy
- New report on international approaches to affordable credit
- EU Chief calls for Robin Hood Tax
- PB can deliver real benefits
- Outgoing NAVCA CEO receives lifetime achievement accolade
- Ideas from creative councils
- Pickles tells armchair auditors when they can inspect their councils' spending
- Councils to publish lists of assets
- Open Data consultation begins
- Community action website survey
- Investigation into the independence of the VCS launched
- DCLG publishes Best Value Statutory Guidance
- Public service plans finally announced
- Localism Bill makes it way through the Lords
- More pilots for Neighbourhood Planning ahead of the Localism Bill
- National Planning Policy Framework published
- Minimum acceptable living standards becoming harder to achieve
- 2010 National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises
- Challenging the pay gap
- Twenty nine areas competing for final ten Enterprise Zones
- JRF starts major programme around poverty and ethnicity
- Community Infrastructure Levy Front Runners project
- Urban Forum responds to community rights' consultations
- Who is prepared for Big Society?
- Planning guidance on compulsory purchase of community assets
- The experience of community organisations controlling assets
- Communities First fund contract awarded
- Locality briefing in support of the Community Right to Buy
- Pickles on Localism and the public services revolution
- Local Works responds to Sustainable Communities Act draft regulations
- Greg Clark signals boost for 'meanwhile uses' of empty buildings
- Planning policy to have a presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Equality Act 2010 Toolkit published
- EHRC responds to consultation on its own future
- Low income neighbourhoods in Britain
- Address BAME under-representation amongst councillors
- Communities generating and saving energy
- Power supply to the people
- Making the case for investment in the walking environment
- Sustainable urban neighbourhoods
- Natural Environment White Paper
- The Far Right challenge to community cohesion is spreading wider
- Public Service Reform White Paper delayed
- What will the Green Deal cover?
- Green bank to begin lending by April 2012
- Dispelling the myths about wind energy
- Planning practitioners unveil thinking on National Planning Policy Framework
- The problem with empty properties
- Tools for Neighbourhood Planning
- Second wave of Neighbourhood Planning pilots announced
- Measuring the Impact of community food enterprises
- Commission launched to shape future of the localism agenda
- Understanding what ‘significant changes' in the NHS really mean
- Progress reports for Structural Reform Plans published
- PM's Big Society Advisor stands down and takes up voluntary role
- Research on the impact of emerging policy on equalities issues
- Civil Society Strategic Partner Responsibilities published
- Addressing social problems through innovation
- BIS reaches out for outreach programme
- ‘Good enough index' proposed by Charity Commission
- Consultation on the Future of Local Public Audit
- Church Action on Poverty ‘Rip Off TV' campaign wins award
- Lessons from Canada's spending cuts
- Credit, debt and financial difficulty in Britain 2009-10
- What price and risk for local financial autonomy?
- Giving White Paper: New Commitments to the Voluntary Sector
- A fairer way for low-income families to borrow money
- EHRC appoints new Chief Executive
- Social enterprise models in the children and young people's sector
- Using digital tools to build activism
- Localism Bill: responses to sections on planning
- Neighbourhood Planning support for communities
- Public sector equality duty comes into force
- National Citizen Service pilot questioned for being prioritised over other youth volunteering
- NCVO urges the Office for Civil Society to reconsider funding equalities groups
- Third Sector Alliance funding ceased
- Government launches consumer empowerment strategy
- UK wind farms operate at only 20% of their capacity
- National statistics on environment released
- RTPI campaign to include National Planning Policy Framework in legislation
- Blogs debate Community Organisers' programme
- Councils must publicise rights to inspect financial accounts
- CBI document says government will not outsource more public services
- Changing Behaviours: opening a new conversation with the citizen
- Active Safer Communities: new report
- Headline findings for citizenship survey published
- Amendments to Finance Bill to tackle legal loan sharking
- DCLG publish regeneration evidence from select committee
- Open data: council tax ‘heat map'
- AV Referendum vote today
- Skills lacking to develop co-operatives and mutuals
- Best value: New draft statutory guidance consultation
- NESTA has launched the Creative Councils programme
- NESTA add to Big Society Finance evidence base
- Red tape challenge
- Consultation on future of local government performance management
- New Social Mobility Strategy launched
- Communitybuilders fund set to continue
- Project AlphaGov to create a single government website
- Better government business
- Transition underway for major planning decisions
- Office for Civil Society announces Strategic Partners
- Robin Hood hits the road
- DWP announces Work Programme prime contractors
- Government says cuts are ‘fairly distributed'
- Public Sector Equality Duty Policy Review
- New Charities Bill published
- Council newsletter restrictions introduced
- Councils urged to avoid ‘short sighted' cuts to voluntary and community groups
- Sustainable Communities regulations consultation
- Review of Local Government duties
- Next steps to turn the civil service into a civic service
- Transition fund grants made and new health funding added
- Neighbourhood Planning vanguards announced
- New Enterprise Zones to be established
- Local Enterprise Partnership Network established
- Empty property programme to support self help housing
- First New Homes Bonus payments announced
- Opposition to cuts - demonstration 26th March
- The changing role of Local Councils and Councillors
- Make giving a social norm?
- Cable announces economic growth plans
- Tackling race hatred in Bradford - a model of good practice
- Welfare Reform Bill published
- Cuts watch - website launched
- Pickles speaks at NCVO Annual Conference
- Advice for the VCS on how to use technology to survive
- Public Data Corporation to be setup
- What matters to you? Measuring Well-Being
- Measuring progress on Sustainable Development
- New data on the pay gap between men and women
- Disability Charities join together to defend the Disability Living Allowance
- People's Supermarket
- New regeneration research
- Research into the impact of globalisation on poverty in the UK
- Big Society - enquiry launched
- Big Society Bank
- Big Society Awards
- Community Rights - invitation to CLG discussion events
- Community Organisers
- New duty proposed for developers to consult at an early stage
- New funding for Credit Unions
- Social Enterprises in health services
- Asset Transfer
- Local Authority uses twitter to open up to residents
- Financial Incentives for Social Landlords
- Community-led regeneration guide published
- Government seeks ideas on National Planning Policy Framework
- Strategic planning needs collaboration
- Making Neighbourhood Planning work
- Housing Associations to hand over more powers to tenants
- Structural reform month by month
- Does Big Society need a nudge?
- Councils to publish spending on the VCS
- Details of final settlement for local authorities published
- Consultations on Community Right to Buy and Community Right to Challenge
- Measuring the Localism Bill
- Information service to help public sector staff set up mutuals
- Localism Bill
- 2010 Policy Round Ups
- Responses to consultation on responsible lending
- Eric Pickles opens up the books
- The Abolition of Cheques
- Institute of Volunteering Research launches free research database
- Cuts to Strategic Partners programme
- Coalition responds to comments on Our Programme for Government
- BURA to be dissolved
- Commissioning opens for National Citizen's pilots
- New paper to help charities prove their worth to the government
- Impact of the budget
- Audit Commission to be abolished
- Travellers offered a ‘fair deal' amid clampdown on unauthorised sites
- A good place to grow older
- Commission says fairness must be at the heart of budget decisions
- Equality Act 2010: consultation on promoting equality through transparency
- Equality Act 2010: Guidance available
- Big Society backlash after community pubs fund axed
- Only one form now needed to organise an event in your street
- Cutting the clutter on our streets
- 'Garden grabbing' concerns raised by new figures
- More local homes means more rewards
- MPs push for Sustainable Communities Act proposals to be dealt with
- Cutting red tape to give a green light for greener development
- Local approach to delivering zero-carbon homes
- Government launches Green Deal
- Councils to be given powers to scrap byelaws
- Localism inquiry launched
- First wave of Public Service Pathfinder Mutuals announced
- Greg Clark sets out three actions to grow the Big Society
- NAVCA members give their views on Big Society
- Big Society task force set up to cut red tape for voluntary organisations
- Big Society evidence base
- Place Survey scrapped
- PM launches Big Society vanguard areas
- National Citizen Service pilots for young people
- Make a date with data
- Report on the economic impact of the sector in Nottingham
- Debt On Our Doorstep tell Vince to put a cap on it!
- Departmental commitments and action plans published
- National Housing Federation plan financial services for low income households
- The End of Regeneration?
- The Future is Local: Empowering communities to tackle climate change
- Using local green spaces to tackle inequality and improve health
- 100 ways to help the high street
- Understanding community resilience in deprived areas
- Citizenship Survey finds little change in feelings of influence
- Understanding barriers to civic participation in the North East
- Community Led Regeneration case study
- PM launches Big Society vanguard areas
- Councillors urged to ‘leave your mark, not a blot’
- Building Communities – Get Involved
- Housing tenants lose voice as National Tenant Voice is axed
- VCS asked for more for less ideas as budgets cut
- Spending Challenge - tell government to cut it out
- Who’s who in Government?
- PB 4 U
- Goodbye Third Sector Survey, hello Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises
- Scaling New Heights – building on innovation in the public sector
- Equality Act 2010 Guidance published
- Human Rights and wrongs of spending cuts
- Women, Faith and Cohesion
- Minimum Income Standard 2010
- Plans to replace Regional Development Agencies with Local Enterprise Partnerships
- £1bn Regional Growth Fund launched
- Councils to declare all spending over £500
- "Pay as you throw" gets dumped
- POWER 2010 and Unlock Democracy to join forces
- Fancy creating your own neighbourhood Council?
- Planning Reform
- Infrastructure Planning Committee to be abolished
- Go Carbon Neutral
- National Housing and Planning Advisory Body Scrapped
- Frank Field to head up Government Review of Poverty and Life
- Hints on reform of current Criminal Justice System
- Select Committee Chairs Announced
- Expert Panel set up on Community Development
- Credit and debt in low income families report
- Social Enterprises need more support to make ‘Big Society' happen
- Substantial Impact being made by ‘Below the Radar' organisations
- Comprehensive Area Assessments and Council League Tables to be scrapped
- Review of fair pay in the public sector
- Public contracts 'undermine charities' independence'
- Big Society plans unveiled
- Coalition Agreement Published
- Social Investment: 10 Years On
- Committee publishes report on helping over-indebted consumers
- Government Equalities Office appointments
- New report on women and poverty in the EU
- TCPA reveals 'future of planning'
- The Queen's Speech
- Eric Pickles has been appointed as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- Call for new Urban Taskforce
- New Government: Who's who in planning
- Coalition deal: Heathrow plans scrapped
- Twenty projects chosen for asset transfer scheme
- Out with Third Sector, in with Civil Society
- Guidance on responsible lending published
- Election campaign pack for local groups
- Community Sector ready to unleash potential
- Guide for Commissioners to working with the third sector
- Civil Society Inquiry publishes final report
- Reforming Planning to deliver more affordable housing
- New report says ‘green spaces make us happier'
- Plans for Post Office banking published
- Joint Government and Third Sector Climate Change Task Force report launched
- Sustainable Communities Acts given go-ahead
- Localism the key to managing cuts
- Duty to respond to petitions to be rolled out
- Total Place needs Total Devolution
- Early Day Motion calls for supermarket levy to fund third sector
- Communities raise a glass to support to buy pubs
- Involvement guidance for public bodies published by EHRC
- Washup or Washout?
- Community Development Finance Assessed
- Assessment of Informal Third Sector pilots published
- Final evaluation of Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy published
- Local Area Agreements Assessed
- New Tool to help businesses assess and improve tackling inequalities
- Understanding Ethnicity and Assets
- CEMVO research highlights impact of recession on BME sector
- 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!
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