Austerity cuts and poor housing risk serious implications for public health by fuelling a “national pest explosion”, warns the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), as it called for the creation of a single government department to tackle the problem.
Keepmoat and Apollo Group have announced some of the people who will take the lead on the board of the new company set to come into being once they complete their merger.
A dispute over pensions has triggered the first industrial action in the Audit Commission’s history, after 500 members of its in-house auditing practice rejected management’s latest offer.
The Government has spent £63 million cancelling welfare to work schemes to establish its new Work Programme, but according to the National Audit Office (NAO) expectations of the scheme may prove “over-optimistic” as some providers struggle to meet their targets.
Measures in the Localism Act 2011 that give local authorities and communities the “freedom and flexibility to achieve their ambitions” have come into effect, including a national home swap scheme for social tenants.
Low-income households are not getting a fair share of the solar panel subsidy and look set to lose out even more under current government proposals, new research for the National Housing Federation (NHF) claims.
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has published information intended to help developers prepare bids for the £420 million Get Britain Building programme, and a toolkit that it says will help communities take charge of development.
