Author: <span>Richard</span>
19 Nov 2018
Spotlight on Rural Health & Social Care – November 2018
This newsletter is provided by the Rural Health Network, part of the Rural Services Network. It includes a roundup of rural health & social care news, research, learning and best...
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12 Nov 2018
Focus on tackling rural crime
There was coverage of the first rural crime day of action, a nationwide event organised by the National Police Chiefs’ Council on Thursday 8th November. Police forces were encouraged to...
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12 Nov 2018
Calls to reduce rural road speed limits
The Sunday Times reported on calls from the cycling charity Sustrans for a reduction in the speed limit on rural roads from 60 to 40 miles per hour. The charity’s...
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12 Nov 2018
Leaked memo reveals Defra Brexit panic
A leaked memo sent on 22nd October shows plans for the emergency reshuffle of staff to support work in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to help...
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12 Nov 2018
Rural hospitals on knife crime frontline
The Guardian reported on the pressures being faced by rural hospitals as a result of the so-called ‘county lines’ drugs trade, which has seen urban gangs moving drugs between cities...
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12 Nov 2018
High street crisis intensifies
An average of 14 high street shops are closing every day, with only 1.569 new shops opening in the period between January and June 2018, an historic low. According to...
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12 Nov 2018
Second homes ‘tax loophole’ review
The Government has launched a review of a tax loophole under which the owners of second homes register their properties as businesses in order to gain small business rate relief....
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06 Nov 2018
RSP Member – National Rural Mental Health Forum
Change Mental Health believes that we have specific expertise in understanding and responding to serious mental ill-health and so we have identified some themes that are of particular interest to...
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05 Nov 2018
Government funds rural broadband
Philip Hammond on Monday announced £200 million of Government funding to extend full-fibre broadband to hard-to-reach rural areas. The Rural Gigabit Connectivity Programme will install hubs in public buildings such...
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05 Nov 2018
Rural areas ‘least socially mobile’
A report recently published by the County All-Party-Parliamentary Group (APPG) and County Councils Network (CCN), Social Mobility in Counties, has found that current council funding models contribute to maintaining a...
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