As well as taking on 70 extra social workers over the past year, the local authority said it was making improvements to working relationships between staff and police.
As well as taking on 70 extra social workers over the last year, the local authority said it was making improvements to working relationships between staff and police.
In their closing submissions, the lawyers said Mrs Thompson had campaigned against the local authority and its staff over the past six years.
In Scotland, personal care is free for those over the age of 65 who have been assessed by the local authority as needing it.
Ethnically diverse Tower Hamlets in the East End has the highest population growth of any local authority, at over 26% in the past decade.
The leaflet claims the local authority is planning to build over 1, 300 homes on the land.
Now a private company is to take over the running of all the school services provided by the local education authority, following an extremely critical report from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
The local authority took over the running of Highland Fresh Mussels in October 2011 - just a year short of the royal gift's 400th anniversary.
The finance secretary said public finances and local authority finances were facing serious challenges over the coming years.
The Welsh capital was one of only three local authority areas in Wales to show an improvement over the last 10 years.
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It warned, depending on what inspectors found, the local authority could be investigated over its statutory duty to provide fair access to good quality education, under new rules due to come into force in May.
But the change to local authority control over public health has led many councils to voice concerns about how much money they will get and the formula that central government will use to allocate funding.
Growing the local economy has been one of the main priorities for the authority, with the council aiming to create over 5, 000 new local jobs through the Tax Incremental Finance initiative.
He said that over the last few years Dundee's investment per house had been above the Scottish average for local authority spending.
Gwynedd's rural nature is indicated by the fact just over two-thirds of its area is in a national park, the highest proportion of any local authority in Wales.
Academies are similar to free schools in that they are also funded directly from central government (as all state schools will be under planned changes), sit outside local authority control and have more control over the pay and conditions of staff than other schools.
The local authority had aimed to cut carbon emissions over the 2009-10 financial year by at least 4.24% as it had done over the past two years.
In addition to easing the exploration process with a simplified single permit for both oil and gas, the plan will be accompanied by a parallel effort to minimize local authority over energy projects.
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Tenants will be checked over a period of time to see if they still require help with housing from their local authority, the BBC has learned.
Nick Bourne (Leader of the Welsh Conservatives) asked about the impact of his policies on local government expenditure and accused central government of presiding over a fall in local authority spending, but an increase in council tax.
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Less easy to justify are Daft's take-it-or-leave-it orders requiring longtime employees to move to far-off Detroit or Cincinnati as part of his "Think local, act local" plan, designed to push more authority over marketing, advertising and pricing down to the regional level.
Just over 1.57 million people living in England and Wales have a second address in another local authority, the Census 2011 has shown.
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