Slavery in supply chains
Tiffany Cloynes and Clare Hardy explore what responsibility councils may have in the future to eliminate slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains.
The winners of the 2019 Street Design Awards
26/06/2019 From the restoration of a historic burial site to a successful and innovative road safety scheme, the winners of the 2019 Street Design Awards have been revealed. |
Highways Winner: New Park Road, Sustrans and Lambeth LBC
26/06/2019 The New Park Road safety scheme has been chosen as this year's winner of the highways category. |
Urban Green Space Commended: Mitre Square, City of London Corporation
26/06/2019 Mitre Square in London has been commended in the urban green space category of the Street Design Awards. |
Urban Green Space Highly Commended: Grantham Green, Eastleigh Borough Council
26/06/2019 This year's highly commended of the Urban Green Space category is Eastleigh Borough Council for its Grantham Green project. |
Urban Green Space Runner-up: Sovereign Square, Leeds City Council and re-form landscape architecture
25/06/2019 The runner-up in the Urban Green Space category is the redevelopment of Sovereign Square in Leeds. |
Urban Green Space Winner: Muslim War Cemetery Peace Garden, The terra firma Consultancy and Woking Borough Council
25/06/2019 The regeneration of the Muslim War Cemetery Peace Garden in Woking has been crowned the winner of the Urban Green Space category. |
Children's Play Highly Commended: Golden Lane Estate Playground, City of London Corporation
25/06/2019 The Highly Commended title of the Children's Play category has been awarded to the refurbishment of the Golden Lane Estate in London. |
Children's Play Runner-Up: Godley Gardens, Enable Leisure and Culture
25/06/2019 Godley Gardens in Wandsworth has been chosen as this year's runner-up in the Children's Play category of the Street Design Awards. |
Children's Play: Winner: Milner Square, Islington LBC
25/06/2019 The winner of this year's Children's Play category is Islington LBC for the new play scheme at Milner Square. |
Public Lighting Runner-up: Newport Bridge Architectural Lighting, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
24/06/2019 The runner-up of the Public Lighting category is Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council for Newport Bridge Architectural Lighting scheme. |
Public Lighting Winner: Winner: The Golden Spiral, The terra firma Consultancy and Brighton and Hove City Council
24/06/2019 The Golden Spiral in Brighton has been chosen as this year's winner of the Public Lighting category. |
Pedestrian Environment Runner-up: Keel Square, Sunderland City Council
24/06/2019 Sunderland City Council has been chosen as the runner-up in the Pedestrian Environment category for its regeneration of Keel Square. |
Pedestrian Environment Winner: Italian Gardens, North Somerset Council
24/06/2019 North Somerset Council has won the Pedestrian Environment category for its transformation of the Italian Gardens. |
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.
