Council staff from across the country are visiting businesses and other people in a new campaign to raise public awareness of the laws on employing children. It follows a survey by local authorities last year, which found that almost 40 per cent of working children in the UK were employed illegally.

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Charities are set to benefit from a local authority’s campaign to get students to recycle and reuse their property when they leave their term-time homes this summer. Manchester City Council is working with the University of Manchester and the city’s Metropolitan University to try to end the problem of piles of rubbish being left outside properties when they are vacated.

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This document outlines the first strand of a comprehensive Programme for Government which will deliver reform, renewal, fairness and change. The Programme will give citizens, communities and local government the power and information they need to come together and solve the problems they face.

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