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Community engagement in New Deal for Communities programme yields fewer outcomes...

19 Dec, 2012 10:45 CET  -   Taylor & Francis
Planning Theory and Practice on the outcomes to community engagement in urban regeneration schemes
Urban regeneration schemes tend to be based on engaging and empowering local residents. A Sheffield Hallam University study has found that even where community engagement is central to a regeneration programme, many key outcomes do not change.

Writing in this issue of Planning Theory and Practice (13.4), Paul...
Arrowhead
 

ARROWHEAD DELIVERS CAPACITY, UNMATCHED LOGISTICAL CAPABILITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ...

16 Aug, 2012 18:01 CET  -   Arrowhead Landfill
UNIONTOWN, AL (August 16, 2012)—Arrowhead offers a uniquely designed, high capacity disposal facility for customers, communities and a wide range of industries across 33 states. Located above the Selma Chalk Formation, Arrowhead is one of the most environmentally sound disposal facilities in the nation.

“With large capacity, unmatched logistical capabilities, railway access, and regulatory permitting for a wide...

YoungMinds urges local authorities to protect children and adolescent mental hea...

9 Feb, 2012 17:49 CET  -   YoungMinds
YoungMinds the UK’s leading children and young people’s mental health charity has written to every Council Leader in England urging them to protect Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services Budgets and highlighting the financial case for investment in early intervention services.
A survey carried out by YoungMinds last year revealed that half of local authorities cut their budgets for children and young...

Anthony Collins Scores Highly in Legal 500 2011 Rankings

3 Oct, 2011 13:16 CET  -   Anthony Collins
Anthony Collins Solicitors ranked highly in the UK Legal 500 listings announced last week, with four Tier 1 positions and improved positions in other key sectors.
The 2011 UK Legal 500 rankings, published last week, have once again ranked Anthony Collins Solicitors highly, Tier 1 rankings in four categories and several of its legal experts ranked as leaders in their specialist fields.

The Guide, which is...
New partners
 

Anthony Collins Solicitors Boosts Team With Key Appointments

13 Jun, 2011 12:36 CET  -   Anthony Collins
Birmingham law firm Anthony Collins Solicitors boosts expanding team with new partners and Head of Marketing.
Birmingham law firm Anthony Collins Solicitors, already one of the largest and well known law firms within the Midlands, is delighted to announce the internal appointment of three new partners: Matthew Gregson, Richard Brooks and Chris Plumley, boosting its partner team to over 20.

Senior Partner,...

Cash-strapped councils could save over £1 billion a year by modernising debt rec...

24 Jan, 2011 12:22 CET  -   Media Intelligence Partners Ltd
Councils could save themselves over £1 billion a year by switching to a new computerised debt recovery system, according to new research.

A pilot scheme led by Northampton Borough Council analysed £2 million of collectable debt that could be quickly reviewed and actively progressed.

If the same results were achieved across the country, cash-strapped local authorities could make progress on inactive debt and...

New early warning system spearheads battle against anti-social behaviour

26 Oct, 2010 18:17 CET  -   Media Intelligence Partners Ltd
Ground-breaking scheme to identify potential victims and give them protection launched by local council and Home Office
People at risk of attack or abuse by gangs of yobs are to be identified by a new early warning system and offered targeted support and protection under a ground-breaking scheme launched with official backing today.

The pioneering move comes in the wake of the Pilkington case in which a mother...

New early warning system spearheads battle against anti-social behaviour

25 Oct, 2010 18:08 CET  -   Media Intelligence Partners Ltd
For Immediate Release 25 October 2010
Ground-breaking scheme to identify potential victims and give them protection launched by local council and Home Office

People at risk of attack or abuse by gangs of yobs are to be identified by a new early warning system and offered targeted support and protection under a ground-breaking scheme launched with official backing today.

The pioneering move comes in the wake...

Northgate partners are top for benefit processing

30 Jul, 2010 10:30 CET  -   Fellows Associates
The top five performing local authorities for benefit processing are all partners of Northgate Public Services, according to research based on statistics published by the Department of Work and Pensions.

West Oxfordshire District Council, North Hertfordshire District Council, Mid Devon District Council, Rushmoor Borough Council and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council have all achieved an average processing time...
“Northgate strengthens demand management services for police”
 

Acquisition of CARM Police Duty Management System

23 Jul, 2010 11:24 CET  -   Fellows Associates
Northgate Public Services today announces the acquisition of CARM Police Duty Management System from Concorde Informatics in a move designed to further boost Northgate’s demand management services for hard-pressed police forces across the country.

CARM is the market leading resource management system used by more forces than any other in the country, including the Metropolitan Police and West Yorkshire Police....