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• Three new rights to right local wrongs - new Community Empowerment Bill to harness petition power

  Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today outlined plans to give every citizen in England three new rights to have a greater say to trigger action on local issues they care about...

  • Added: 15 May 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Dhanda - Government committed to tackling antisemitism

  Action is being taken across government to tackle antisemitism said Cohesion Minister Parmjit Dhanda today as he published the Government's one year on response to the All Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism.

  • Added: 12 May 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Blears - Community cohesion

  Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has today published new guidance encouraging local authorities to better map their communities and the people that live there as part of efforts to monitor tensions and promote more cohesive and integrated communities.

  • Added: 12 May 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Healey announces £31m restoration fund for flood-hit communities

  Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today said that all the extra money the UK is receiving from the European Union (EU) to help with flood recovery will be passed on to communities affected by last summer's floods.

  • Added: 6 May 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Minister confirms funding for New Deal for Communities in 2008-09

  Communities Minister Baroness Andrews today announced that deprived communities across the country will benefit from over two hundred million pounds in 2008-09. This money will be paid through established neighbourhood partnerships to help boost...

  • Added: 9 April 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Healey announces further flood funding for three local councils

  Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today announced a further £365,000 in Bellwin funding to three of the councils affected by last summer's floods. Gloucestershire County Council, East Lindsey District Council and Cheltenham Borough Council will...

  • Added: 9 April 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Twelve experts sign up for eco-towns challenge

  Twelve experts from the worlds of design, the environment, transport and sustainability have signed up to join the Eco-towns Challenge and play a key role in shaping the future of the biggest new towns programme in the UK for forty years.

  • Added: 9 April 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Fire minister boosts diversity with national graduate programme

  Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda has announced £3million to drive forward increased diversity in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) including new plans for a national graduate entry scheme.

  • Added: 2 April 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Helping to create more prosperous places

  Ministers have today laid the foundations for sweeping reforms to bring about a renaissance in England's most deprived areas.

  • Added: 31 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Healey announces further flood funding for Gloucestershire and Lichfield

  Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today announced almost £1.5million funding for Gloucestershire County Council and Lichfield District Council to help them get back on their feet following last summer's floods.

  • Added: 26 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Local Democracy needs you

  Local people are being given the opportunity to have their say on improving local services and reviving communities today as Hazel Blears calls for contributions to the new Empowerment White Paper, launching an online public discussion forum.

  • Added: 19 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Faith and community leaders graduate from first ever government recognised course in community leadership

  Cohesion Minister Parmjit Dhanda and Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education Bill Rammell today attended a graduation event for the first group of community faith leaders and youth workers...

  • Added: 19 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• New consultation to give people greater say over local spending

  Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has set out a new draft strategy for consultation today to give people in every local authority area a greater say on how public money is spent by 2012, including exploring for the first time using 'community kitties'...

  • Added: 19 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Healey announces a further £1million council flood funding

  Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today announced almost £1million funding for four local authorities to help them get back on their feet following last summer's floods.

  • Added: 13 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Putting communities in control - Blears

  Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has today announced radical plans to unlock talent in local communities and give people a real say on improving local services and promoting active citizenship.

  • Added: 5 March 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Business boost for asset transfer and community enterprise

  Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is joining forces with business to take a more active role in supporting local community enterprise...

  • Added: 27 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Blears announces new regeneration drive for Manchester

  Manchester's regeneration has been given a multi-million pound boost today alongside the creation of a new ministerial group to support city leaders in bidding for further projects, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said.

  • Added: 26 February 2008
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• Healey secures tax boost to revive deprived areas

  Measures designed to breathe new life into deprived areas came a step closer today, as Local Government Minister John Healey laid regulations in Parliament to enable the introduction of reforms to empty property rates on April 1.

  • Added: 26 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Government publishes alternatives to casino-led regeneration

  The Government has today published a new report, which shows that the benefits of regional casinos can be delivered through alternative, but equally effective, projects.

  • Added: 26 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Council flood funding payments exceed £15million

  Floods Recovery Minister John Healey announced on 25 February 2008 over £2.5million funding for six authorities across the country, to help them get back on their feet following last summer's floods.

  • Added: 25 February 2008
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