A new project by one of London’s biggest hostel providers aims to help solve the combined problems of people who have nowhere to live and who also misuse drugs or alcohol.By being based in a hostel for the homeless, the project aims to be in the right place at the right time for a group which contains a large percentage with these kind of problems.

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The Centre for Policy Studies has condemned waste in the chain of funding provision for schools. The right-leaning think tank argues that local councils are still holding on to far too much money that the Government intends to go to schools.The report picks on a key area of difference for Labour and Conservatives in the election battle ahead in that the current Government argues it is already keeping local education authorities in check, and the Tories want to clip their wings further.

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