Eight local authorities are being fast-tracked into the Building Schools for the Future programme. They will now be able to begin developing plans with an estimated value of more than 600 million pounds.
The eight councils - Enfield, Hounslow, North Tyneside, Rotherham, Southampton, Staffordshire, Walsall and Worcestershire -have been approved for the programme, which is designed to give secondary school pupils hugely improved facilities. 

Directors of adult social services have given strong backing to a Government consultation which has been launched to help shape the content of its Dementia Strategy, due to be published in the autumn. Jenny Owen, the Vice President of ADASS, said the process marked the beginning of important improvements in the way people suffering with dementia were cared for. 

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