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The decision to apply localism to the Social Fund a year ago has probably helped

Conservatives gain seat in Staffordshire

Barnet Council’s commissioning model has improved residents satisfaction and allowed a Council Tax cut

South Ribble is freezing it’s share of the Council Tax – but bills will still rise due to the Lab/Lib Dem county council increase

Rates are a complex and unfair burden on business based on arbitrary property values

20 minutes is not long enough to judge the quality of teaching

A massive increase of supply of good normal housing that real people want to live is an idea worth pursuing

Conservatives lost seats to the Lib Dems in Canterbury and Shropshire.

Labour MP blames cuts for a stadium being closed – without mentioning a new one is replacing it.

Rent arrears have fallen in the social housing sector from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent

We have become the first council to offer our tenants the chance to be able to buy their council home one share at a time

Far more councils have boosted incentives by increasing the “earnings disregard” as have eroded them by increasing the taper.

Boys like to read non-fiction books.

At a cost of nearly a billion a year 5,000 children are in soulless institutions.

Conservatives gain a seat from Labour in Bury

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