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Labour MP Campaigning For Bereavement Suites In Maternity Wards Was "Fighting For Life" As A Newborn

30 Apr Health

A Labour MP who is campaigning for every new maternity unit to include bereavement suites for grieving parents has told PoliticsHome that her premature birth left her and her mother "fighting for their lives".

24 Apr Communities

Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks

23 Apr Communities

Council Leaders Say Reform's Cost Cutting Plans Are Detached From Reality

09 Apr Communities

Kensington and Bayswater MP Joe Powell: "We Are At A Record-Low For Trust in Government"

30 Mar Health

"All Peopled Out": Labour MP Cat Eccles On Being Autistic In Westminster

26 Mar Education

Vice Chancellor Attacks "Politically Motivated" Investigation After University Gets Record Fine Over Free Speech Row

20 Mar Communities

Ministers Poised To Demand Inquiry Recommendations Are Enforced

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The government’s fraud strategy must bring all sectors together

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30 Apr Communities

The government’s fraud strategy must bring all sectors together

29 Apr Communities

When our cities are strong, populist parties like Reform suffer

17 Apr Communities

Amid Trump's trade war, co-operative economics can thrive

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Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks

24 Apr Communities

Labour Figures Fear More Gaza Independent Gains At The Local Elections

26 Apr Political parties

It’s time to consider stockpiling – a grey-zone attack on the UK is likely

24 Apr Defence

Tories Criticise "Outrageous" Choice Of Football Regulator Chair Who Donated £75,000 To Labour MPs In Two Years

25 Apr Culture

Reform Is The Common Enemy In The Unpredictable Race For Hull And East Yorkshire Mayor

27 Apr Political parties

Recipes for Disaster: Kemi's steak

30 Apr Parliament

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13 Mar Health

The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'

A mental health social worker takes us through a typical day in the job, from disappointing patients to dealing with abuse and threats

28 Feb Communities

'A broken system': Diary of a London tenant

Professionally familiar with the levers of power, Zoë Crowther was nonetheless caught in an unfolding rental nightmare that she says reveals a deeply broken market. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall

26 Feb Communities

Florence Eshalomi: 'Where’s the outrage that so many children have died in temporary accommodation?'

Labour’s Florence Eshalomi tells Harriet Symonds about Keir Starmer’s need to loosen up, her friendship with Kemi Badenoch, and the pain of knowing that children are still experiencing what she did in unsuitable temporary accommodation. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer

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25 Mar 2015 Environment

The grass isn’t always greener

The Chief Executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England Shaun Spiers makes the case for keeping the countryside beautiful

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25 Mar 2015 Communities

Supporting small community groups is not a ‘luxury’ but an investment

Lord Phillipsis right to highlight the challenge for communities and individuals within communities in creating and maintaining the local connections that are so valuable to people and place, says the Community Development Foundation.

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25 Mar 2015 Environment

Funding a plan to reduce UK's flood risk must be a Gov't priority

Responding to the Public Accounts Commitee report on flood risk management,Louise Hanson, Director of Advocacy, Association of British Insurers, said:

25 Mar 2015 Communities

Lord Phillips: Love thy neighbour – Britain’s community life crisis

Ahead of today’s debate, Lord Phillips of Sudbury calls for a Royal Commission to examine the fragmentation of British society.

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20 Mar 2015 Environment

Budget 2015: 'Uninspiring and empty' says GGF

This week Chancellor George Osborne announced his final Budget before this years General Election in May, the GGF has reacted by describing it as uninspiring and empty.

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18 Mar 2015 Communities

Tidal Lagoon Power an Opportunity for UK Mineral Products

Recent proposals to develop a network of tidal energy lagoons should represent an opportunity for the UK mineral products sector and the wider construction supply chain it supports, suggests Nigel Jackson, Chief Executive of the Mineral Products Association (MPA).

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18 Mar 2015 Communities

Help to Buy: ISA helps first-time buyers and the economy

The chancellor threw a lifeline to first-time buyers with the announcement of the Help to Buy: ISA during the last Budget before the general election.

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18 Mar 2015 Environment

EY responds to Osborne's budget

In response to GeorgeOsbonesfinal budget of this parliament,EYexamines the Chancellors announcements and the impacts they might have.

Budget 2015: George Osborne urged to 'boost glass and glazing industry'

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17 Mar 2015 Communities

Budget 2015: George Osborne urged to 'boost glass and glazing industry'

Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Glass and Glazing Federation has written to George Osborne to outline GGF Members’ concerns on several issues that are affecting the Glass and Glazing industry.

Home is where the heart is: the Building Societies Association launches a manifesto for change

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17 Mar 2015 Communities

Home is where the heart is: the Building Societies Association launches a manifesto for change

The Building Societies Association has set out its priorities for government ahead of May’s general election.

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16 Mar 2015 Communities

BSA launches Housing at the Heart of Government: a Manifesto for change

In a bid to stimulate the debate that is necessary to tackle the failures in the UK housing market, the Building Societies Association (BSA) has today published Housing at the heart of Government: a manifesto for change.

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12 Mar 2015 Communities

Construction apprenticeships have plummeted

Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the Federation of Master Builders, said:

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11 Mar 2015 Communities

Increase in public demand for new homes needs to be addressed, says FMB

Public support for new house building is increasing and needs to be addressed if we are to tackle Britains growing housing crisis, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) in response to new findings from the British Social Attitudes Survey.

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11 Mar 2015 Environment

Brownfield regeneration must be backed by better policy

CPRE paper illustrates we can do much more to ensure the highest quality housing development on brownfield land

Gov't must stop ‘short-sighted’ selling off of public land

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09 Mar 2015 Communities

Gov't must stop ‘short-sighted’ selling off of public land

Martyn Evans, Creative Director of the Cathedral Group Ltd, warns that £2.3bn worth of local authority assets could be undersold over the next five years, costing nearly £230 million over the lifetime of the next Parliament.

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06 Mar 2015 Communities

Regulation of Volumetric Concrete Mixers Long Overdue Says MPA

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has urged Government to end the loopholes which enable volumetric concrete mixers to sidestep HGV regulations.

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06 Mar 2015 Communities

Stop NI construction becoming export industry, says FMB

The Northern Ireland Executive must stem the tide of construction workers leaving the province to work on the mainland by committing to greater levels of capital spending and ensuring announced projects go ahead, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

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06 Mar 2015 Communities

Ecobuild 2015: Launch of Concrete Industry’s 7th Sustainability Performance Report Demonstrates Progress but There is No Complacency

The concrete industrys 7th Sustainability Performance report was launched at Ecobuild this week.

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04 Mar 2015 Education

Constructing change

MPs across party lines welcome a new report by the Chartered Institute of Building which analyses the effect of migration on the construction industry.

04 Mar 2015 Environment

We must protect our food-growing land

Labour MP for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy sets the context for her Westminster Hall debate today; the threat to an award winning food growing project in her constituency

04 Mar 2015 Communities

Nowhere to go – the action we need to tackle the Tories’ affordable housing crisis

Shadow Minister and Nottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood says that the next government has to improve the quality of housing and end the scandal of cold homes

03 Mar 2015 Communities

Building a better future for the construction industry

Commenting on the newly released Chartered Institute of Building report on the effect of migration on UK construction, Labour MP Steve Rotheram calls for a greater focus on training to fill the skills gap as the sector expands.

Use of migrant workers should not stop training in construction – new report

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03 Mar 2015 Communities

Use of migrant workers should not stop training in construction – new report

In a new report on migration and UK construction, the Chartered Institute of Building calls for a greater focus on training rather than reliance on migrant workers to fill the skills gap in the sector.

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02 Mar 2015 Communities

Migrant labour vital to construction but should not be a substitute for training, says CIOB

With the 2015 UK General Election fast approaching and the immigration debate likely to be central to the decision making of the electorate, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is launching a report to share the construction industrys stance on the issue.

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Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport

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