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Think tank report on UK’s 64 largest cities
Now in its sixth year, this is an authoritative economic index of the 64 largest cities and towns in the UK. The findings this year…
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Are you updating your Whistleblowing Policy
How should an employee react when a colleague engages in an act of corporate wrongdoing? Let me rephrase that. How should an employee react…
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Latest Parliamentary briefing
The latest round up from the guardian on line: parliamentarybriefingjan17 Catch up with David Cameron’s comments on the urgent need to develop new homes…
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Assessing support needs for older LGBT residents
This study from Joseph Rowntree looks at the how the choice of housing and support for older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people is…
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New ASB powers make it too easy to evict?
A lawyer has told a select committee about her concerns it will take longer for landlords to evict tenants with reforms to anti-social behaviour…
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Eurpoean law on discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace
Legal experts have claimed council staff do not have the right to discriminate against homosexuals in the workplace, following a judgment by European law-lords…
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£6 million Government pot to learn english
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has launched a £6m language fund to reach out to groups with the lowest command of spoken English. In a…
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More support to be given to rough sleepers
Housing Minister Mark Prisk has announced £3.6m of funding from the Homelessness Transition Fund – administered by Homeless Link to help support the government’s…
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Fair and Democratic Migration policy
This paper from IPPR sets out 10 broad ‘principles’ for migration policy that we believe would provide the basis for a UK migration policy…
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How housing staff can help tackle child poverty?
Millions of children are living in poverty in the UK – and the number will rise as we feel the full affects on welfare…