The report backs a bigger role for local government - including control of Crown Estate shoreline revenues - and warns that the council tax freeze may be unsustainable in the long term.
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They then abolished the system of grant-maintained schools, whereby state schools were allowed to opt out of local-authority control.
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We have learnt that in many villages nominally under al-Shabab control, local chiefs are asking for help and allowing humanitarian workers - mostly from organisations they already know - to come in and help.
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In Britain academies, also free from local-authority control, were pioneered by the last Labour government.
These, the government claims, genuinely allow private firms to run schools largely outside local-authority control.
The government's signal reform involves freeing schools from local-authority control, letting them set their own budgets, alter their hours and change how they teach.
Its most successful reform involves freeing schools from local-authority control.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main rebel group fighting for political autonomy and local resource control in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, has called off its unilateral ceasefire, just weeks after announcing the move.
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Academies are non-fee paying, non-selective state schools, which operate outside the control of local education authorities and have private sponsors.
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This time the guerrillas are seeking to reinforce their position in the peace negotiations by taking control of as many local-government posts as possible.
News emerged that the Guangdong provincial government became the first local government to release detailed property-control measures.
Suddenly, the old issues of race and local control seemed less pressing, and co-operation between city and suburbs more appealing.
In China, the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.3% to 2297.67 as news emerged that the Guangdong provincial government became the first local government to release detailed property-control measures.
David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.
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When schools become academies, they become semi-independent and outside of local authority control.
"Efforts by the Chinese authorities to co-ordinate, control and limit local government indebtedness is a good thing in our view, " she said.
Turning to May's local government elections - where the SNP wants to win control of Glasgow City Council from Labour - Mr Salmond said voters had the chance to call time on the party's "local fiefdoms".
The whole imbroglio is small potatoes for the Fertitta brothers, Frank and Lorenzo, who pulled their Station Casinos through bankruptcy and now control a large part of the lower-cost local gambling market in Las Vegas.
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In Mr Yeltsin's time, attempts to bring under control the far-eastern Maritime Territory foundered when the local armed forces turned out to be under the thumb of the fearsomely idiosyncratic provincial governor.
They include the possibility of a "hypothecated" NHS tax, greater local control of public services and encouraging public service workers to set up co-operatives to provide services.
The local government in Suwon, a suburb of Seoul, took control of a toilet-shaped home of a former mayor after his death and turned it into a museum of bathrooms.
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Concerns over violent crime and gun control were also re-awakened among South African people, with local broadcaster and commentator Daniel Silke saying many people lived "often on edge in their home".
The Department of Education exerts some control over almost every aspect of the day-to-day affairs of local school districts.
Since the high-water mark of the last council elections the Lib Dems have lost overall control of the Cornwall County Council, and have not won any of six local by-elections.
While the president talks about gun control, in a city where local activists say you can buy guns just about anywhere -- even gas stations -- some activists argue that should be only a part of the conversation about violence.
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But his support of Lord Heseltine's call for control of billions of pounds of government and European growth funding to be devolved to local decision-makers, piloted by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, will not cost Mr Osborne a penny.
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