There is no evidence that foreign migrants are being given precedence over local people in the allocation of social housing, according to new research. The findings in an interim report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Local Government Association are based on data from the Labour Force Survey which gives a snapshot of local authority housing allocation. 

More than 11,000 people in Manchester have responded to a city council consultation on the future of recycling services across the city. The consultation is being run as part of the council’s 100-days Campaign to make Manchester a cleaner and greener place to live. The campaign and the consultation have just reached the half-way point.
The council recruited a team of canvassers who have been visiting local communities as part of the process. 

By Julia Hirst, Eleanor Formby, Sadie Parr, Judy Nixon, Caroline Hunter and John Flint.
Young people are often unfairly demonised in current debates about anti-social behaviour. This article describes how reward schemes work and it looks at the effect of rewarding young people for pro-social behaviour and the positive contributions they can make to their communities. The authors also looked at the features that contribute to the success of reward schemes.