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  2. Performance of the Department for Communities and Local Government 2007-08

    Briefing

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    This briefing has been prepared for the Communities and Local Government Select Committee to provide an overview of the work and performance of the Department for Communities and Local Government (the Department) in the financial year 2007-08 and subsequent months. It takes as its basis the Department’s Annual Report 2008, drawing upon the work of the National Audit Office (NAO) together with relevant material from other external and internal reviews of departmental performance.

  4. Progress in setting up combined authorities

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    For combined authorities to deliver real progress they will need to demonstrate that they can drive economic growth and contribute to public sector reform.

  5. Financial sustainability of local authorities 2018

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    This report reviews developments in the sector and examines whether the Department, along with other departments with responsibility for local services, understands the impact of funding reductions on the financial and service sustainability of local authorities.

  6. National Asylum Support Service: The Provision of Accommodation for Asylum Seekers

    Report Value for money

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that contracts agreed by the Home Office in 2000-01 to provide accommodation for asylum seekers have not always proved value for money. The Home Office’s National Asylum Support Service provides accommodation for asylum seekers who are destitute, or likely to become destitute, while their […]

  9. Housing in England: overview

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    The need for housing in England has in recent years grown faster than its supply, and housebuilding needs to increase across the country.

  10. Homelessness

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    Homelessness has increased across all measures since 2010, with many local authorities now seeing it as a risk to their financial sustainability.

  12. Pressures on children’s social care

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    This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.

  16. Local Enterprise Partnerships

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    The role and remit of Local Enterprise Partnerships has grown since 2010, but the approach taken by DCLG to overseeing Growth Deals risks future value for money.

  18. Personalised commissioning in adult social care

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    The Department of Health now needs to gain a better understanding of the different ways to commission personalised services for users, and how these lead to improvements in user outcomes.

  19. The Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement programme

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    UK Government says it is on track to meet target to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020. Local authorities’ ability to secure suitable school places and houses a risk to success. NAO estimate programme will cost £1.12bn by 2020.

  20. English devolution deals

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    Devolution deals to devolve power from central government to local areas in England offer opportunities to stimulate economic growth and reform public services for local users, but the arrangements are untested and government could do more to provide confidence that these deals will achieve the benefits intended