Sentence examples for while councils from inspiring English sources

Schools want full responsibility for the children they accept, while councils and social workers want to be able to check up on them.

Several local authorities, including Doncaster, Wigan and Corby have been to court just once each, while councils in east London have prosecuted 256 landlords.

Licensed HMOs are subject to inspection only once every five years, while councils are limited to enforcing narrow HMO regulations and health and safety standards.

The little-used scheme means that people get to stay in the house they know and love while councils escape the burden of having to rehouse them.

The former state-owned telecoms company has committed £207m less to the programme than civil servants originally forecast, while councils have spent £236m more, government auditors have found.

While councils will continue to support the most needy, people with requirements that are one notch short of urgent will have to fend for themselves.

Aldermen also receive an income, while council members are paid only an attendance fee.

The LGA reported that while council funding has been cut by 28%, Whitehall departments had faced only an 8%reductionn.

While council taxes are raised on empty properties, the inflation in their price means this does not prove a deterrent.

Past concessions to GPs and pharmaceutical companies are draining even a "ringfenced" NHS of money, while council care has been cut by a third.

While council fatwas are decrees that do not legally bind Muslims, people who disobey them are considered to be committing a sin.