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Regional Centres of Excellence welcome Academy for Sustainable Communities | |
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The Network of Regional Centres of Excellence for Sustainable Communities welcomes the Deputy Prime Minister's announcement of the establishment of the Academy for Sustainable Communities and has been working to support its development. Across the English regions, Centres of Excellence are working to overcome the biggest barrier to the achievement of the sustainable communities' agenda - the severe shortage of people with the right skills who are also able to work across sectoral barriers to make and ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 |
Category: News From Other Organisations Topic: Central government |
National Centre goes to Leeds! | |
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The Deputy Prime Minister announced today that the new National Centre for Sustainable Community Skills will be located in Leeds. John Prescott used the first session of the Sustainable Communitites Summit today to announce that he had decided the new national skills centre for sustainable communities will be in Leeds. He also announced a new name for the centre, The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC).
The news will come as a bit of a disappointment to Birmingham which was the other city ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
Category: News bites Topic: Central government |
Prime Minister opens summit | |
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The Prime Minister Tony Blair, was the surprise special guest at the launch of the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester this evening. The Prime Minister praised the work of John Prescott in getting the issue of sustainability onto the government's agenda. He also showed a real enthusiasm for the work of people who are delivering sustainable communities "on the ground".
The Summit, which will run through until Wednesday and over 1900 delegates are expected to attend.
Read more... Published: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
Category: News From Other Organisations Topic: Central government |
Johnnie goes to Exeter - to discuss National Centre | |
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On the 13th of January 2005 the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister came to Exeter! The reason for the visit? They wanted to consult with the region over plans to establish a national centre for sustainable communities skills which will help people involved in regeneration and sustainable communities work.
Exactly what this centre will do is still to be decided, and the staff from ODPM came to St. George's Hall to hear from a selection of people from across the region that may have an interest in the ...
Read more... Published: Monday, January 31, 2005 |
Category: News From Other Organisations Topic: Central government |
Firm Foundations: framework for community capacity building | |
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On the 8 December the Home Secretary announced the publication of Firm Foundations: the Government's framework for community capacity building.
This brings to a conclusion the Government's review of support for community capacity building, and builds on the results of the consultation at the beginning of this year on Building Civil Renewal.
Firm Foundations has clearance across Government, and provides a clear reference point for future work on community capacity building and community ...
Read more... Published: Monday, December 20, 2004 |
Category: News From Other Organisations Topic: Central government |
21 pilot areas announced for Local Area Agreements | |
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The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has announced the 21 areas to pilot Local Area Agreements (LAAs).
LAAs are designed to allow local authorities freedom in allocating budgets to address local community needs in three key service areas: children and young people safer stronger communities health and older people The intention is that pilot authorities will work with partners to negotiate targets and outcomes with central government which will in return allow the authority freedom to ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
Category: News From Other Organisations Topic: Central government |
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