Council leaders have warned they will campaign in force if the Government does not renew the Post Office’s contract for administering its benefits card scheme. MPs have criticised a delay in the decision over the contract and the Local Government Association says taking it away from the Post Office ‘could rip the heart out of local areas across the country’.

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Trust and accountability in local government are to come under the scrutiny of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. It has announced that the subject of its twelfth inquiry will be ‘Local Leadership and Public Trust: Accountability and Transparency in London and Local Government’.

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This document from the Cabinet Office analyses the trends and drivers of social mobility. It identifies the critical importance of factors that have an impact on people’s life chances including the care and development of children in their early years, the quality of schools, continued and high quality education and training post16 and constantly improving the skills of the workforce.

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