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Rethink Mental Illness: Mental health cuts are being made behind closed doors

Spending on social care for people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, is being cut behind closed doors, despite government promises of transparency, says a report launched today by the charity Rethink Mental Illness.

FSB: Small firms losing battle for public sector work

Small businesses are still struggling to win public sector contracts despite the Government’s efforts to make it easier, the latest figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show.

NASUWT: Reckless deregulation is creating 'Wild West' in schools

Commenting on the findings of the investigation into the Priory Federation of Academies Trust published today, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union said:

NASUWT: Local authorities have a key role in education

Representatives at the NASUWT Annual Conference in Birmingham have condemned the war being waged by the Coalition Government against local authorities.

CIHT has submitted its response to the Department for Transport’s (DfTs) Devolving Local Major Transport Schemes Consultation.

The Devolving Local Major Transport Schemes consultation reflects the government’s clear ambitions for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and the desire to engage businesses and the private sector in the decision making process.

ESRC: Empowered citizens or hopeful bystanders?

The new political appetite for 'localism' in town planning has triggered anxiety within local communities and amongst those charged with making it work, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

NHF: The UK’s housing crisis is showing little sign of recovery, new Government statistics have revealed

Figures released today by the Department for Communities and Local Government report the UK is building not even half the homes needed to ease the country’s housing shortage, even as millions of people are still in need of a home.

BHA: New rules on setting up schools in England are "regressive"

New rules on setting up English schools introduced by the Education Act 2011 have come into force today. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called the changes a ‘regressive step in further entrenching favouritism enjoyed by “faith” school proposals in the school creation process’.

VoicetheUnion: Group calls for Government to abandon plans to transfer health and safety to school governors

A national asbestos trade union campaign group has called for the Government to abandon its plans to transfer the responsibility for health and safety in local authority schools from local authorities to school governors.

NUT: Primary School League Tables

Commenting on the Key Stage 2 results for England in 2010/11, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said this:

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Plans have been put in motion by the coalition government to allow local authorities in England to scrap unwanted and outdated by-laws without the need for a go-ahead from Whitehall.

Laws regulating the frying of fish as a "offensive trade" in Gloucester, or prohibiting the drying of clothes in Whitstable parks all look set for the chop, providing that the moves have the approval of local residents.

The aim is to reduce the amount of legislation that no longer has any relevance as part of the government's much-touted commitment to devolving power from the centre to the local level.

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Failing hospitals test gets go-ahead

Family and friends test to be put to all NHS hospital patients from April 2013

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Confirmed: Double-dip recession even worse than feared

Chancellor George Osborne faces a double-dip recession

No 10 unleashes Tory gay marriage opposition with free vote move

New York has already opened its doors to gay marriage

No eurozone answers as crisis drifts on

David Cameron wants 'decisive action soon'

Must try harder: £35bn remains in uncollected tax

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Leveson vs Paxman: 'You could become an irrelevance'

Paxman: "Your challenge will be to stop yourself becoming a total irrelevance."

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Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.

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Voice: Feeling stressed? Understand yourself? Now, move forward Conference

Application forms are now available for an exciting conference in Manchester. The fun-packed day will give you practical solutions and advice on managing stress and time to help you achieve a work/life balance.

BHA: The Marriage Debate - ‘This house would legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales'

Two weeks before the Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage draws to a close, Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association is participating in a debate hosted by Catholic Voices on the motion, ‘This House Would Legalise Same-Sex Marriage’.

BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition and Conference

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Devolution of power

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Pressure, not wrongdoing, forced Hunt ex-spad Adam Smith's resignation

Failing hospitals test gets go-ahead

The memo that brings Hunt scandal to Cameron's door

Confirmed: Double-dip recession even worse than feared

No 10 unleashes Tory gay marriage opposition with free vote move

No eurozone answers as crisis drifts on

Must try harder: £35bn remains in uncollected tax

Leveson vs Paxman: 'You could become an irrelevance'

Cameron lashes out: Ed Balls branded a "muttering idiot"

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