National news
DCLG: Building safe, active communities - Strong foundations by local people
Leading charities pledge support for £1 billion Youth Contract
Report tackles rural isolation
Department for Education: Review of vocational education - The Wolf Report
Carewell – a new website for carers
Department of Health: Personal health budgets and NHS continuing healthcare discussion paper
DCLG: National evaluation of the handyperson programme
Independent experts to help improve health results for children
Serving deprived communities in a recession
Age UK : Care in Crisis 2012 Report
Cancer charity loses out as bank ends credit card deal
DCLG: Bringing empty homes back into use - Application guidance for community and voluntary groups
Ofsted: Guidance on the registration of an independent fostering agency branch
Department of Health: Healthy lives, healthy people - Improving outcomes and supporting transparency
Last call for community organisations that are helping to decide local services
Powers in the Localism Act pass down to Communities
Background checks for taxi drivers
DCLG: Regeneration to enable growth - A toolkit supporting community-led regeneration
CQC publishes ten reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities
Government accepts new recommendations from NHS Future Forum
Creating a sporting habit for life
Ofsted: Guide to registration on the Childcare Register
Number of voluntary sector workers falls by almost 9 per cent
New start date and more funding announced for local HealthWatch bodies
PM unveils plans to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families
Extra money to help people leaving hospital
Fund will offer £20million support for single homeless people
Big Lottery Fund outlines new approach to infrastructure
DCLG: 2009-10 Citizenship Survey:
Race, religion and equalities topic report
Homeless people in the UK revealed to have life expectancy of just 47
Jargonbuster - helping charities speak the same language?
Pilots to inform decisions on the creation of new palliative care funding system 31st January
NHS Outcomes Framework 2012-13
BIS: Guide for community buying groups
Improving Equality and Diversity in Your Organisation
Care home residents to keep DLA/PIP mobility
Department for Education: Characteristics of children in need in England 2010-11 – Final
Department of Health: Innovation, health and wealth
Audit Commission: Joining up health and social care - Improving value for money across the interface
First of £3 million Government funding given to disabled people’s user-led organisations
Sector wins VAT exemption on shared services
Hospital patients 'more likely to die at weekends'
Impact evaluation of the Disabled Children's Access to Childcare Pilot
Evaluation of child poverty pilots - Delivering improved services for separating parents
Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan
Close to home: An inquiry into older people and human rights in home care
Department of Health: New approaches to supporting carers’ health and well-being - Report
Home care providers in England face inspections
Cancer survival: Macmillan hails major improvement
DCLG: Laying the Foundations: A Housing Strategy for England
Hidden in plain sight - the inquiry final report
Four in ten disabled children are living in poverty
Spotting the signs of dementia
Children in Care and Adoption Performance Tables
Charities and Investments - a guide for Trustees
Ofsted: Motivating young people through music - Sound It Out Community Music
Youth dropout blackspots revealed in a new report
Cabinet Office: The August riots in England - Understanding the involvement of young people
Report published into charities awarded grants by Big Lottery Fund
At Your Bidding - guide for trustees on commissioning and tendering
Code of Good Governance for smaller organisations launched
Department of Health: Cold Weather Plan for England
Department of Health: A call to action - Health visitor implementation plan summary progress report
New investment guidance 'should stimulate social investment
Ofsted: Ages of concern - Learning lessons from serious case reviews
Ofsted: Edging away from care - How services successfully prevent young people entering care
Third Sector Knowledge Portal is backed by BIG funding
CQC report on dignity and nutrition review published
Department of Health: Healthy lives, healthy people - A call to action on obesity in England
Greener Journeys: a step change for Britain’s buses
Reporting on the state of health and adult social care
Plan your neighbourhood with Building Community
Ofsted: Inspection of your children's centre - guidance
Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives
Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee's Report: Localism
Pro bono Marketing offer from IBM to 3rd Sector
Website news
First public property map - councils could save billions
Community Legal Advice website closure
Public given chance to scrutinise new legislation
Citizens Advice launches website for under 25s
Street-level crime maps launched online
Right Here – young people’s mental health
Updated 17th February