For the first time in the UK, expert doctors have been given the option to legally issue prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines when they agree that their patients could benefit from this treatment. The law change, laid in Parliament today, came after the Home Secretary, Sajid
A series of measures to tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace will be announced by Prime Minister Theresa May today – exactly one year after the government published the findings of a world-first Race Disparity Audit on how people of different ethnic backgrounds are treated
A property company developing a scheme in the borough has agreed to pay Camden Council an additional £3.5 million in Section 106 payments, to be used for affordable housing. The developer Regal Homes had initially claimed that following a financial viability review of the multi-million
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has revealed the first projects to be supported by a £112 million investment fund, generated from growth in business rate receipts in the capital. Part of the funding announced today will go directly into the Mayor’s already established Good
London Councils has welcomed the Prime Minister’s speech to the National Housing Federation, in which she reiterated her commitment to fixing ‘our broken housing system’. Cllr Darren Rodwell, London Councils’ Executive Member for Housing and Planning, said: “The announcement of £2bn of extra funding for housing associations
The UK has joined forces with Egypt, the United States and a number of other countries in the Exercise Bright Star as part of its military cooperation. British Defence Attaché, Colonel Ed Sandry said: Egypt and the UK continue to work closely together in the
Five organisations in England have been awarded £489,050 from a new government start-up fund to help people who have taken lengthy career breaks to care for others get back into work, the Minister for Women Victoria Atkins announced today (22 September). In the UK, nine
New London Councils’ venture Advice Aid has been hailed a success! London Ventures, a joint partnership between EY and London Councils, aims to harness private sector innovations to help provide solutions for London local authorities. One such venture partner is Advice Aid, who help local
London Councils hosted an event the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton earlier this week, exploring ‘What should the Spending Review do for London?’. The discussion was chaired by Richard Brown, Research Director from Centre for London and led by an expert panel of speakers: Cllr Ruth
Britain’s unemployment rate hasn’t been lower since the mid-1970s, as official figures released by the Office for National Statistics show it’s fallen to 4.0%, with 1.15 million fewer unemployed people since 2010. The UK saw a sixth continuous month of real-terms pay increases, with regular
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