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• Downing Street launch for Troubled Families Scheme

  Local Authority leaders and frontline community workers were this week invited to a reception in Downing Street to mark the start of the Government's groundbreaking initiative to turn around the lives of troubled families.

  • Added: 30 March 2012
  • Site: Local government

• Tackling skills gap in Solent

  How Solent Local Enterprise Partnership is tackling the skills gap in Solent.

  • Added: 9 December 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Baroness Newlove: Community action in Havering

  Baroness Newlove has joined local residents in Havering, North East London to celebrate the opening of a new 'Community Shop' set-up to give local people a greater role in solving local problems.

  • Added: 7 December 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Community Budget pilots move one step closer as shortlisted areas named

  Shortlisted areas are named for the 'Whole-Place' and 'Neighbourhood-level' Community Budgets pilots.

  • Added: 2 December 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Andrew Stunell: Tackling the blight of empty homes in Salford

  On Monday 21 November 2011 Communities Minister Andrew Stunell joined construction workers from B4Box - a Salford-based social enterprise and building company - at a former empty terraced home currently being renovated in the city.

  • Added: 28 November 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Grant Shapps encourages communities to high jump red tape and celebrate London 2012 with their own street games

  Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has fired the starting pistol in the race to get Britain warmed up for London 2012 and plan Street Games.

  • Added: 19 November 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Responses to the Localism Bill receiving Royal Assent

  Responses from organisations to the Localism Bill receiving Royal Assent.

  • Added: 16 November 2011
  • Site: Local government

• HomeSwap Direct offers fresh opportunities for social tenants

  The Government's new national 'Homeswap Direct' scheme will make it easier for social tenants living in a social to find a new home in another part of the country.

  • Added: 27 October 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Bob Neill: Trafford businesses are shaping their area's future

  Communities and Local Government minister Bob Neill met with business leaders and local government members in Trafford today to discuss how neighbourhood planning at Trafford Park can help to stimulate growth in the local area.

  • Added: 6 October 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Further details of the council tax freeze

  The Department for Communities and Local Government has provided further details following the Chancellor's announcement on supporting councils to freeze council tax next year.

  • Added: 3 October 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Local Enterprise Partnerships: Eric Pickles and Greg Clark attend inaugural growth summit

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark are urging Local Enterprise Partnerships to push for local growth and to challenge Whitehall for the powers and freedoms they need at an inaugural summit in London.

  • Added: 15 September 2011
  • Site: Local government

• The riots one month on: the good work must continue

  This week marks one month since the worst of the rioting hit the streets of some of our biggest cities. Since then, councils have been pulling out all the stops to get affected areas back to normal.

  • Added: 7 September 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Greg Clark meets with National Trust to discuss National Planning Policy Framework

  Planning Minister Greg Clark met with Fiona Reynolds of the National Trust as part of the draft National Planning Policy Framework consultation.

  • Added: 7 September 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Bob Neill says 'three cheers' for the 'local' at the Great British Beer Festival

  Community Pubs minister Bob Neill attended the country's biggest beer festival at Earl's Court yesterday where he outlined plans that could help ensure cherished locals stay open following a sale.

  • Added: 3 August 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Residents stamp their authority on local Post Office

  Watch a video to see how residents in Sheffield have benefited from the country's first charity run Post Office after their local facility unexpectedly closed in August 2009.

  • Added: 11 July 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Bob Neill hails the Great British seaside at international coastal conference

  Communities Minister Bob Neill spoke about the enormous economic potential of the great British seaside in a speech at the first ever international conference for coastal communities.

  • Added: 24 June 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Bob Neill raises a glass to the Great British pub on a visit to Kent

  Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill emphasised the important role of the Great British pub to the economic and social vibrancy of communities on a visit to the locally owned and run Westerham Brewery and The Royal Oak pub in Crockham Hill, Kent.

  • Added: 21 June 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Government plans final steps to cancel backdated ports 'tax'

  The proposed legal changes that will cancel the unfair, retrospective business rate payments on businesses, including those affected within ports, were published on 14 June 2011, Local Government Minister Bob Neill has announced.

  • Added: 15 June 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Volunteers save local Tourist Information Point

  A group of 50 Volunteers in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, have worked with the local council to keep their Tourist Information Point open.

  • Added: 13 June 2011
  • Site: Local government

• Grant Shapps tells councillors: don't let council officers be the backseat drivers

  Housing and Local Government Minister Grant Shapps today told councillors not to let back seat bureaucracy steer them off course on the road to greater town hall autonomy.

  • Added: 9 June 2011
  • Site: Local government