Sentence examples for councils- from inspiring English sources
As well as a keynote speech from the government's adviser on big society, Lord Wei, delegates will also hear first hand accounts of how other local government managers are implementing big society in their councils and the best practice they have developed.
The shadow home secretary said the government should work more closely with the devolved institutions and councils to assess how many refugees they would be prepared to take.
It calls on the new government to fully fund council tax support, acknowledging that the scheme costs the councils millions of pounds and has increased the cost of living for some of the poorest.
A survey by the UKHCA found the average rate across the UK was £13.66 an hour, with Liverpool and neighbouring Knowsley councils paying less than £11.
Because the money is a one-off and must be spent immediately, councils will use it largely to buy in extra services such as care agency support for people in their own homes and short-term places in residential homes.
In the good old days, councils and housing associations built social rented housing – often called council housing.
The LGAQ encourage councils to use apps but advise buying them "off the shelf" or partnering with software developers as it can be more benefitial than going it alone.
But it is behind the scenes in the endless councils, conferences and summits of the EU that Juncker has left his mark.
It has upheld complaints against councils and police forces on 10 occasions – that's 0.68% of the total.
Many of these councils are coming because they have no other means of raising serious cash: three decades after Thatcher's rate caps, and four years into the most painful cuts faced by local government, they are flat broke.
Research councils are prescribing open-access requirements for outputs which will be submittable in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF), and there are now nods towards monographs being included in those requirements at some elusive point in the future.
