Revaluating financing options
Caroline Daves considers if leasing be part of the solution for councils and schools as the PWLB interest rate rises.
Home Office urged to review abortion clinic buffer zone decision
09/10/2019 Charities and medical bodies have today written to the Home Secretary to ask for an ‘urgent review’ of a decision taken last year not to install buffer zones around abortion clinics. |
Court upholds abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’
22/08/2019 The Court of Appeal has upheld Ealing Council’s protest-free ‘buffer zone’ which is located outside of an abortion clinic in the London borough. |
Local government's relationship with Extinction Rebellion
23/07/2019 Several cities throughout the UK have been hit by protests involving climate change protestors. Mark Whitehead assesses how councils are dealing with it. |
Birmingham council granted interim injunction to protect school from protests
03/06/2019 A court order banning protests over sex education outside a Birmingham school is set to be reviewed next week. |
Council bans anti-abortion protests near clinic
07/03/2019 Richmond has prohibited anti-abortion protests outside a pregnancy advisory clinic after a consultation revealed the majority of residents supported a ban. |
Sheffield CC compromises over controversial tree felling plans
14/12/2018 Sheffield CC has acknowledged the need for a new phased approach to street tree replacement as a result of the ongoing controversy over tree felling. |
Sheffield CC tables proposal to end tree felling dispute
25/10/2018 Sheffield City Council has tabled a proposal to save 300 trees and ‘phase the work on others’ in an effort to end the long running dispute over tree felling. |
Council’s boycott of illegal Israeli settlements ‘legitimate’, court rules
05/07/2018 The Court of Appeal has ruled that Leicester City Council’s decision to boycott illegal Israeli settlements is both ‘temperate and legitimate’. |
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
