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How Housing Providers are beating the bedroom Tax
The housing benefit bill has ballooned out of control. It now stands at £23bn and takes up more than a tenth of the welfare budget. Successive…
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More housing for dementia sufferers say the NHF
More specialist housing and support services are urgently needed if Britain is to cope with the rising numbers of people with dementia, the National…
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The living wage and public policy
This report from IPPR and the Resolution Foundation provides significant new detail on the value, costs and impacts of the living wage, for employees…
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Bidding for renewal energy run by the Energy Saving Trust
A new competition, launched by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), aims to get renewable heating options installed in social homes. The…
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Shared services in LAs saves £263million
At least 337 councils are engaged with 305 shared service arrangements, achieving £263m in efficiency savings, according to a new white paper. Six Approaches…
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Condition of Britain programme – informal discussion with IPPR
As part of the Condition of Britain programme, IPPR held an informal discussion group with service-users of Revolving Doors Agency and St Mungo’s, two…
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Increasing population causes govt to revise population estimate following census
Government statisticians have upwardly revised by nearly half a million population estimates across 348 local authority areas in England and Wales – in light…
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£9.5 million for neighbourhood planning – fund launched today
A £9.5m fund has been launched by Locality to help communities create neighbourhood plans. The neighbourhood planning fund will give groups a grant of…
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Place shapers report on building new homes
Mark Prisk said housing markets had become ‘increasingly dysfunctional’ while launching a report recommending how to build more homes locally yesterday. PlaceShapers-Build-Local-report The housing…
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Small business lending – a challenge for banks
Peer-to-peer lending between SMEs and investors could emerge as a challenger to existing bank lending models, a report suggests. A study from innovation foundation Nesta has…
