Publications

Early retirement of council employees has become the norm, not the exception.

As a follow up to its national report A Safer Place, the Commission has produced a handbook that gives practical guidance to head teachers on how to reduce p

Highlighting home care/home help services, respite care provision and, in relation to residential care, the levels of single room provision, staff qualification

Highlighting information relating to pre-school provision, primary school class size, primary and secondary school occupancy levels and special educational need

Covering issues relating to council house repairs, rent loss due to empty houses, rent arrears levels, council house sales and the processing of housing benefit

These pamphlets cover a selection of the indicators from the main report.

Looking at food hygiene inspections, water quality, household waste recycling, the time taken to process planning applications and trading standards enquiries a

Each year councils publish a range of information to show people how well they are providing their services in comparison with previous years and how they compa