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...able to cope. By notifying other agencies TUO saves an enormous amount of time and stress. Examples of services notified include state pension, housing benefit and Disability Living...
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...building sustainable communities.” Its responsibilities include housing, community and voluntary sect...nd social legislation. It is also responsible for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the Social Securit...
...the growth agenda through strengthening local economies, taking forward the localising of business rates, and implementing the recently-announced housing strategy. It is going to be a...
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Why didn’t someone think of this ‘welfare reform’ earlier?
...e', and that all those complex schemes and structures in place will be simplified. So, if you're unemployed, have young children, live in council housing, and also have a disability,...
The rhetoric of localism wears thin
...involved eroding councils’ freedom of manoeuvre. And councillors are set to gain new powers: they’ve already been freed from regional housing targets. How much real substa...
News
RDAs’ loss ‘will harm planning’
...rvice managers “agree” or “strongly agree” with the government’s plans to accept deferred payment for land put into joint ventures with housing developers. Support for the m...
...ich will affect property and infrastructure projects. McCarthy joined DCLG in 2003 as a director general, after a career spent mainly working for housing associations. The Department...
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...vernment’s proposed changes to the administration of council tax and housing benefits. The government prop...l tax benefits to be administered by local councils, but proposes that housing benefits be included in the U...
The riots aren’t just wrecking shops
...in is the rule of law.Liberal commentators have, of course, pointed out why these people are so angry and aggressive: unemployment, poverty, poor housing, dysfunctional families and h...
Interviews
...in late 2008, just as the credit crunch was tearing chunks out of the housing market and construction indus...ils and the ‘Big Society’, while a neighbourhoods directorate runs housing, planning and regeneration.Se...
...ing age having to deal with three or four benefits and tax credits and housing benefit, they’ll just have...to what we’re prepared to pay – your family situation, disability, housing – and if you move into work...
Features
...cidental overpayments in some parts of the benefits system – such as housing benefit – because the Treas...l for this benefit, while the budgets of councils with high numbers of housing benefit claimants are boosted...
...t we’ll only find out whether the new system is really much better when growth returns to the economy.” The prospects for affordable housingSocial housing fared badly in the comprehens...
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...e of the information clear, in turn making it easier to engage the local community.Tullo gave an example of a website which allows residents of a housing estate to report fly-tipping...
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The coalition special advisers
...st ward”, taking a seat in the Frognal and Fitzjohns area. She has since joined four council committees, including those covering education and housing, and promises to use her know...
...THE TREASURY Special Adviser Will MacdonaldWill McDonald served as Yvette Cooper’s special adviser during her stint as Minister of State for Housing in the Communities & Loca...
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This week’s interviewee works for the home ownership branch of a housing association"I work for a large housing association with regional offices throughout the South-East: the organisation employs more than 1,000 people, and manages tens of thousands of properties. I have worked in the housing...
Tags: home ownership, council and social housing, housing associations, housing, regeneration, supported housing, shared ownership, mortgages, care homes and centres, stamp duty on property
Kerslake: Formerly lead Sheffield City CouncilChief executive, Homes and Communities AgencyWhat was your highlight of 2008? It’s a bit of an understatement to say that 2008 was a big year for me. I’ve been described as ‘the man charged with solving the country’s housing crisis’, so 2009...
Tags: Leadership and Management, Housing
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