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  • No real rights in empowerment white paper, FoE, July 9 [1]
  • New Start editorial July 2 2008 Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, for the show of the century! The Great Illusionist is about to perform! With one wave of a white paper, the perspicacious prestidigitator will scatter the stardust of empowerment among the awed masses…
  • New Start editorial April 23 2008 In the film Goodbye Lenin!, a Communist Party stalwart wakes up after lying in a coma throughout the downfall of the former East Germany.
  • New Start editorial January 16 2008 Many years ago I visited Sri Lanka as the guest of a local church minister. While showing me a project to improve the living standards of poor labourers in the tea-planting region of Nuwara Eliya, he observed: ‘God is on the side of the poor. They wouldn’t survive at all otherwise.’


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[edit] 2008

  • Communities and Local Government publish local priorities website, June 30 [3] Top 20 priorities across England: in fifth place - 100 out of 150 local areas choosing this - Per capita reduction in CO2 emissions in the LA area; in 12th place - 85 out of 150 local areas choosing this - per cent of people who feel they can influence decisions in their locality. topic
  • Just 38 per cent of respondents to the Citizenship Survey (April 2007 - March 2008) felt able to influence decisions in their local area whilst only 39 per cent of people were involved in some kind of civic participation such as attending a public meeting, signing a local petition or contacting a local councillor. The findings tally closely with data from this year's local elections which showed average voter turnout at around 40 per cent or less. [4]
  • Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson announces a new Task Force to take forward proposals in the Power of Information report, March 31 [5]
  • "Local Strategic Partnerships or Local Service Boards are not sufficiently local or connected to the community to allow effective community involvement." Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First by Dave Adamson and Richard Bromiley of the University of Glamorgan is published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. March 11 [6]
  • White Paper launch document 'Unlocking the Talent of our Communities' published, March 5 [7]
  • Community contracts to be piloted in twelve areas across the country, January 22 [9]

[edit] Earlier years

2007, 2006 and 2005


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References

  1. Friends of the Earth, July 9
  2. Communities and Local Government, July 9
  3. Communities and Local Government, June 30. Local priorities website (government website)
  4. Communities and Local Government June 26
  5. www.tom-watson.co.uk, March 31
  6. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, March 11
  7. Communities and Local Government, March 5
  8. Friends of the Earth, January 25
  9. Communities and Local Government, January 22
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