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‘The Conservative government’s Housing and Planning Bill will cause at least 80,000 council properties in Britain to vanish by 2020, according to the Local Government Association (LGA), intensifying the nation’s housing crisis. The LGA predicts councils will be forced to sell off 66,000 homes under the existing Right to Buy scheme by the end of […]

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‘Australia Post, Bankstown City Council in Sydney and Greyhound Racing Victoria are among 61 government agencies that have applied to be given access to Australians’ private metadata without a warrant. The government bodies are seeking to be considering “criminal law enforcement agencies” so they can access Australians’ internet history and phone records. Also on the […]

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‘Local authorities in the most deprived parts of England have held back on spending millions of pounds in taxpayers’ money that was intended to offer emergency support to people who are plagued by poverty, a report has concluded. Analysis published by the National Audit Office (NAO) on Tuesday reveals councils in the poorest parts of […]

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The government is intending to slip through legislation  to stop local councils from divesting from projects or situations that they deem to be unethical. They will be stopped from divestment of council funds from arms manufacturers, tobacco companies, fossil fuels and illegal settlements in the israeli occupied West Bank. Read more:  How the Government plans […]

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‘The UK government has proposed new legislation to suppress the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, the Financial Times reported last week. The measure aims to restrict the freedom of municipal pension managers to choose how they invest their funds. A statement by the ruling Conservative Party released in October announced that it would amend […]

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‘On Monday 7th December 2015, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) published a report on Council parking revenue throughout the UK. Steve GOODING, Director of the RAC Foundation, has been quoted in the national and regional press as stating: ‘The legal position is that parking charges are to be used as a tool for managing traffic. […]

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‘David Cameron is under investigation over an alleged breach of the ministerial code, despite the Tories’ recent edit of it. He’s been accused of not separating his constituency role with his cabinet role, showing his own constituency preferential treatment regarding Tory austerity cuts. The Labour Party wrote to the Cabinet Secretary to request a ruling […]

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‘Disabled people are sleeping fully clothed in wheelchairs, surviving on biscuits and waiting 14 hours to use the toilet because of steep cuts to care services, a report revealed yesterday. Social care is “crumbling” as a result of government funding neglect, research by charity Scope found, and the growing deficit is estimated to be at […]

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‘The UK government has said it intends to change legislation in order to prevent local councils divesting from the arms trade and Israeli human rights abuses. Announcing the plans, a Conservative spokesperson said that “Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, alongside Labour-affiliated trade unions, are urging councils to use their procurement and pension policies to […]

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‘Only this week ministers admitted the days of Brits having their dustbins emptied every week was long gone. But families could soon be forced to wait as long as four weeks to have their household waste removed, it has emerged. A growing trend towards monthly collections could see some areas having their bins collected as […]

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‘Fewer than one in 10 council workers is being punished for privacy breaches which include in one instance using local authority CCTV cameras to film a colleague’s wedding. A report published today by Big Brother Watch found evidence of more than 4,000 data breaches over the past four years – yet fewer than 400 council […]

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‘Following the brutal killing of up to 30 British tourists in Tunisia last Friday, broad-ranging powers came into force to stop extremist radicalization within British universities, prisons, councils and public health trusts. As the government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act is implemented, each of these state institutions will be bound by a new statutory duty to […]

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‘Following the brutal killing of up to 30 British tourists in Tunisia last Friday, broad-ranging powers came into force to stop extremist radicalization within British universities, prisons, councils and public health trusts. As the government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act is implemented, each of these state institutions will be bound by a new statutory duty to […]

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‘The UK is having its CCTV cameras switched off by councils who can’t afford to keep them running, the government’s surveillance camera watchdog said, warning of a deterioration in crime-fighting standards amid the government’s biting […]

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‘A controversial child protection chief has quit her job with a six-figure payoff – only to be immediately rehired on almost £1,000 a day. Deputy children’s commissioner Sue Berelowitz, who was criticised for failing to […]

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