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17 hours ago ago from The Blue Blog
Last week, the Audit Commission released the first set of Comprehensive Area Assessments. This followed seven years of Comprehensive Performance Assessments that became increasingly time-consuming, expensive and irrelevant to local government and meant nothing to residents interested in knowing how well local public services in their area were being provided or could be improved. Being released on the same day as the Pre-Budget Report ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Progressive
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19 hours ago ago from Trans(actions) : Trans(acciones)
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