Nick Oettinger, managing director at R&R Beds, comments on the rise of furniture poverty in the UK and why the public sector needs to do more to help families in need of basic household furniture.

Public Sector organisations will share in the latest award of funding to improve life in the workplace. Innovation was the key factor for successful bids to the Department of Trade and Industry’s ...

Two thousand delegates are expected to attend the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit in January, which will be the largest event of its kind to be staged in this country. The Deputy Prime ...

Older people in Wales are to be allowed to use local authority swimming pools without charge in the first national scheme of its kind anywhere in Europe. The Free Swimming pilot will allow anyone over ...

Harrow Council has completely automated its handling of parking fines by introducing an online appeals and payment process for penalty charges via its website (www.harrow.gov.uk). Since August 2012, ...

Local government pension funds could soon be made available build more homes, roads or high speed railway under new proposals. The proposals potentially allow councils to double the amount they can ...

Some one billion pounds of funding from the Private Finance Initiative is helping to deliver the greatest programme of school building and modernization the UK has ever seen. Almost 500 schools are ...

Obesity amongst children and young people is on the increase nationwide, but the National Healthy Schools Programme is proving a catalyst for positive action, enabling schools to tackle the issue in a ...

Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester explore the competencies – the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising – that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these ...

The strategy is the Housing Corporation’s response to the recommendations in the Our Shared Future report from the Commission on Integration and Cohesion. It shows how the Corporation intends to ...

High quality care services can reduce levels of neglect or abuse, according to a new study from the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It found that councils which performed well on safeguarding ...

New measures to ensure public sector efficiency are set out in a new white paper – ‘Service Delivery Agreements 2001- 2004’.The performance targets – Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were set in July.