People who traditionally find it difficult to enjoy and participate in Scotland's cultural and creative life can do so if activities are better planned and co-ordinated at local level.

Wyre Borough Council on the Fylde coast has gone live with an Enterprise Case Management solution from Lagan which will help it to reduce avoidable contact and thus improve services to citizens as part of its wider Customer First action plan.

"Criminal justice experts join cause for local power shift”

The Commission on English Prisons Today has backed the LGiU’s campaign to deconstruct our centralised state and hand power back to local people.  This influential group of experts in the field of criminal justice has advocated a shift to a more local system to help tackle the endemic problems faced by our prison system.

Communities Secretary John Denham has set out what steps he intends to take in deciding whether any proposals for unitary local government in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk should be implemented.

Londoners are getting better at household recycling, air quality is improving, bird populations are increasing and the capital is becoming more carbon efficient, according to a new report published today (30 June, 2009) by the London Sustainable Development Commission.

The Mid Sussex Partnership has just produced a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) for the area.  It is a requirement on such Partnerships that they set out their plans for the future.

London Councils has welcomed plans outlined by the government to increase the number of affordable homes and allow local councils to keep the rents they collect and any money they raise through Right to Buy.

Herefordshire is one of the best places to live in the UK, and people in the county are more likely to live longer to enjoy it.

Comprehensive Area Assessment is a new way of assessing local services to help people hold them to account. And when CAA's website and its assessments of local services launch on 10 December, it will have a shorter, snappier and friendlier name - oneplace.

More than 150 organisations will receive £2.3 million to tackle knife crime and support victims Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.