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Highlights of the SPEL conference 2017
This year’s Scottish Planning and Environmental Law conference, held in Edinburgh’s COSLA building, focused on Anticipating and preparing for change and covered a range of topics from the impact of Brexit on planning and environmental law ….
Are controversial ‘fix rooms’ a solution or a problem?
By Steven McGinty
In August, Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) announced that it had found a potential site for its pilot drug consumption facility.
This new service provides drug users with a place to ….
Are smartphones damaging young people’s mental health?
by Stacey Dingwall
Last week saw the launch of Universities UK’s #stepchange campaign – a framework that aims to help universities support the mental wellbeing of their student populations. In their ….
Prize-winning planners take a bow: winners of the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence
At this week’s Planning Research Conference, hosted by Queen’s University in Belfast, the winners were announced for the 2017 Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Research Excellence.
These awards recognise the best spatial ….
University degrees – are they worth the cost?
By Heather Cameron
Often cited as the best path to a successful career, university degrees continue to come under the spotlight with questions over their actual value, particularly with tuition fees now starting to increase.
Millions of ….
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Going grey behind bars: meeting the care needs of older people in prisons
The population is ageing. People are living longer, and are in need of greater levels of care than ever before. But how is this increase in life expectancy and demand for care being ….
Countdown to the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence
Here at the Idox Information Service, we see our core mission as improving decision making in public policy by improving access to research and evidence. So we are proud once again to be playing a ….
Joining up housing and mental health
The role of housing goes far beyond physical shelter and safety. It introduces people to a community to which they can belong, a space which is their own, a communal setting where they can make friends, ….
Coming unstuck? New solutions to tackle discarded gum
In April, the Local Government Association (LGA) declared war on chewing gum:
“Chewing gum is a plague on our pavements. It’s ugly, it’s unsightly and it’s unacceptable.”
Representing more than 370 councils in England ….
