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Bidding for Neighbourhood Plan opens at Adactus
Adactus Housing Association (AHA) are inviting bids for a share of £23,000 from their Neighbourhood Fund for 2014/15. Reporting in Housing News: The fund,…
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Wigan invest 2 days of staff paid leave in the community
Council staff in Wigan will be allowed to take off two paid days a year in order to do community work, as part of…
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Housing Associations calculate Social Dividend
The first findings of a pilot study of a social housing index to demonstrate the economic performance of landlords’ assets have been revealed. According…
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3000 local residents attend jobs, homes and enterprise fair
Over 3,000 Liverpool residents visited Liverpool Town Hall last week for a jobs homes and enterprise fair offering the chance to apply for live…
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Task force called for to improve purchasing for social value
Ministers have been urged to launch a taskforce to help cash-strapped council commissioners do more to improve people’s lives when awarding contracts. The call…
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Offering services to offer LA services to public before private business
The public should be given ownership of services before they are outsourced or privatised, a new bill is proposing: The Private Members’ Bill, which…
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Commissioning services and social vale
Those commissioning services are more likely to feel confident using the Social Value Act than providers, new research has shown to LG News: A new survey,…
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IPPR 2013 Policy Impact 2013
IPPR have published their policy impact in 2013 Here it is: On energy policy – rarely out of the news this year – IPPR…
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The future of HAs and investment in communities
Here is the report from Service matters at Orbit HA, into 6 possible futures for Housing Associations Housing 2020 PDF Orbit have also been…
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Investing in landscapes can reduce public spending on healthcare
Investing in landscapes could help reduce public spending on health care, according to a new report from the Landscape Institute. The Public Health and Landscape…
