- 18/05/12
- The sluggish state of the housing market was underlined by figures on Thursday showing a substantial decline in new houses under construction in the first quarter of the year.
- Source: Financial Times
- 18/05/12
- David Cameron is considering ordering billions of pounds in extra welfare cuts proposed in a confidential Downing Street policy paper, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
- Source: The Daily Telegraph
- 18/05/12
- Duncan Jefferies in the Guardian explains how augmented reality apps can make planning applications more transparent.
- Source: The Guardian
- 17/05/12
- Ministers are failing to tackle the housing crisis and not enough new homes are being built, leading to rising rental levels and growing homelessness and overcrowding, according to a report by leading housing experts.
- Source: The Guardian
- 17/05/12
- Two of Britain’s most senior civil servants have been given a mauling by MPs for failing to put a figure on the number of jobs being created by the Government’s much-criticised flagship Regional Growth Fund.
- Source: The Times
- 17/05/12
- Around 50 campaigners have gathered outside Kensal Rise library in north-west London after Brent council workers began removing books from the closed library, which has become a key battleground in the fight over local authority cuts.
- Source: The Guardian
- 16/05/12
- Labour leader Ed Miliband has called on health and wellbeing boards to “defend the NHS” from privatisation and increasing competition.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
- 16/05/12
- The number of vulnerable older and disabled people who had home care services fully paid by their local authority fell by 11% in England in the past two years, according to newly published figures.
- Source: The Guardian
- 16/05/12
- Ministers have axed a contract with A4e, the company owned by David Cameron’s former “families champion”, after they found its work was “seriously inadequate” and “too great a risk” to the taxpayer.
- Source: The Daily Telegraph Daily Mail
- 15/05/12
- Fears that companies charged with helping benefit claimants into jobs under the government’s flagship welfare-to-work programme are getting “paid for doing very little” will be raised by a Commons spending watchdog on Tuesday.
- Source: Financial Times