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We produce a wide range of publications from research reports to policy briefings, as well as our members' magazine, Clearway, and a monthly Policy Round-Up. Our Handy Guides provide practical information covering topics such as LSPs, Planning and local government. All our publications are designed to provide accessible and relevant information to help you get to the heart of what matters.
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Communities and Local Government has launched a framework , based on the Office of the Third Sector's Social Enterprise Action Plan (2006), to outline how it will be supporting the community enterprise sector.
Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced plans to give public sector workers the right to form employee-owned co-operatives to take over services such as JobCentre Plus, community nursing teams and primary schools. The co-operatives are envisaged as state funded not-for-profit organisations which re-invest surpluses back into services rather than external shareholders.
In a speech to the Local Government Information Unit National Conference ‘C'llr.10: Inspiring councillors, inspiring communities' , Communities Secretary, John Denham, talked about the decisive leadership role councils will play in building economic recovery
The government has produced a scoping study covering the nature and scale of worklessness in WNF areas, the strategies in place to tackle it, feedback from early deployment of the fund and what lessons have been learned.
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has produced a discussion paper called Mass Localism which describes how government can move away from centrally driven projects towards resourcing initiatives developed and led by local communities.
post bank consultation 0210Urban Forum has produced a response to the Department for Business Innovation & Skills' consultation on developing the banking and financial services available at the Post Office.
