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The Red Book: children under pressure

Today, Action for Children has launched new research showing thousands of children across the UK are struggling to cope with serious problems that no child should have to deal with. Poverty, family illness and separation are having a devastating and potentially...

Setting the agenda

In recent weeks, Ed Miliband has been setting the agenda, focusing on key issues including the rising cost of energy bills, the urgent need for regulation on payday lenders and the crisis in A&E. Today he stuck with this theme and asked David Cameron a simple...

The high-tech council

Despite the terrible financial settlement imposed on us by the government, Brent is aiming to be the most technologically cutting-edge authority in the public sector and is helping its residents, despite the draconian cuts, to overcome the digital divide and embrace...

The rehabilitation counter-revolution

On his appointment as justice secretary, aware of the need to make cuts, Chris Grayling made clear that he saw a stark choice between reducing the number of people in prison and reducing the costs of each prison place. He, of course, chose the latter - an approach...