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National Adoption Week – The Big Issue | 03/11/11

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As we approach the end of National Adoption Week, the country is still reeling from the revelation that out of the 3,600 children under the age of one in care, only 60 were adopted last year. ...Read More

Back to the Future. How is life in austerity Britain? | 21/10/11

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I was born in 1983. This was the year that Michael Foot’s Labour Party published a manifesto that would come to be known as the ‘longest suicide note in history.’...Read More

Planning for Growth? Don’t hold your breath | 14/09/11

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If you are looking to build something new in England – whether it’s housing for people who would love to get on the property ladder, light industrial units to help small businesses kick-start the much needed economic recovery, or specialist care facilities for society’s most vulnerable – you might have been pleasantly surprised earlier this year....Read More

Guest Blog by Sally Prentice, Lambeth Councillor - A day in my life as a Councillor | 08/07/11

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In the first of our series of local government blogs Sally Prentice, Labour Councillor for Ferndale Ward in Lambeth, gives PLMR a taste of local authority life....Read More