Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
The Chartered Institute of Housing annual conference and exhibition is the leading event in the UK housing calendar – and this year, Housing 2016 promises more innovation, ideas and inspiration than ever before. Government Business looks ahead to the show.
Online housing tools help improve housing and the health of residents, says Bob Mayho, Principal Policy Officer for the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
Amid cuts to local authority funding, Mike Harris, deputy head of policy and research at the Royal Town Planning Institute, makes the case for investing properly in planning.
In August, a £26 million fund was announced for house builders that will be used to acquire brownfield sites to provide land for starter homes
The National Insulation Association has endorsed a government cash injection to boost early take-up of the Green Deal, but says that more action is needed to ensure the success of the scheme
The National Insulation Association and the Solid Wall Insulation Guarantee Agency are setting out a robust delivery plan to insulate the UK’s solid wall housing stock
Britain has the oldest housing stock in the developed world with 8.5 million properties over 60 years old. Most of these are energy inefficient and many are in a poor state of repair, writes BRE
The Code for Sustainable Homes is an important tool for the government to achieve its ambition of all new homes meeting a zero carbon standard by 2016, writes David Weatherall, Energy Saving Trust
How does the code work, and how will recent and proposed changes affect it?
With September’s registration deadline for the scheme looming, Dave Lewis, head of business energy services at npower, offers some words of advice to public sector departments on overcoming the challenge of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
BRE gives useful guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls when it comes to the Code for Sustainable Homes
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s Conference and Exhibition offers four events in one: a housing summit with topical debate, a vibrant and innovative exhibition, a brand new exhibitor focused seminar programme and a packed social networking diary
Peter Marsh, chief executive of the Tenant Services Authority, looks at how housing associations have weathered the economic storm
From this spring, social housing providers will have to meet new standards required by the Tenant Services Authority
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