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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Councils to face restrictions on surveillance (A shameless political rant)

April 17, 2009

The Home Secretary has announced that councils ‘might in future’ face restrictions on their use of covert surveillance measures. Some …

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Employment strategies aren’t working

April 10, 2009

As part of the city council’s scrutiny process, whereby decisions made by the executive and outside bodies are reviewed by backbench …

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