Local Elections: What voters really want from their councils
With voters heading to the polls tomorrow, a recent YouGov survey reveals what local issues matter most — and the answers are not always what you might expect.
Benefits cap to 'make many areas off-limits for larger families'
22/06/2015 Many parts of England will become too expensive for larger families on benefits when the benefit cap is lowered, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). |
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Legal-high ban to bring new council powers
29/05/2015 A new ‘blanket ban’ on ‘legal highs’ will offer councils and police more powers to tackle psychoactive substances, the government has said. |
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Top bodies call for mental health action
29/05/2015 Six of England’s leading health organisations have joined forces to call for mental care to become a national priority. |
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Queen's speech 2015: Tougher laws on strike action
27/05/2015 The Conservatives have pledged to ‘protect essential public services against strikes’, using today’s Queen’s Speech to confirm it will set a tougher threshold for industrial action. |
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Queen's Speech 2015: Metro mayors crucial in government's devolution offer
27/05/2015 The Government’s intention to only devolve further wide-ranging powers to cities with elected metro mayors has been confirmed in today’s Queen’s Speech. |
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Queen's Speech 2015: Devolution, Right to Buy and welfare reform
27/05/2015 Proposals to ensure the devolution of cities and expand Right to Buy to social housing tenants were outlined in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech in nearly two decades today. |
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Queen's Speech: Councils await devolution and housing vows
27/05/2015 Plans to give cities greater economic powers and a controversial extension of the Right to Buy scheme to 1.3 million social housing tenants will be among Bills set out today in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996. |
