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Circular NJC/2/26 – Pay award 2026

The NJC has agreed an increase of 3.8 per cent with effect from 1 July 2026. This circular contains the revised rates of pay from 1 July 2026.

Modern slavery

Modern slavery can take many forms including the trafficking of people, forced labour, servitude and slavery.

Innovation in council housebuilding - Sutton

Sutton is an outer London council that has retained its stock, delivering management via its Sutton Housing Partnership arms-length management organisation (ALMO).

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Innovation in council housebuilding - Stroud

Stroud District Council has a proactive enabling approach to tackle the housing issues in a growing and attractive rural district made up of many villages and small towns.

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Innovation in council housebuilding - Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is an ambitious local authority, with a housing policy focused on maximising use of the HRA and council assets to support existing communities and as a tool to lever in matching support from Government, the third sector and private developers.

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Innovation in council housebuilding – Oxford

Oxford City Council has had an ambitious ongoing council housebuilding programme. This aimed to contribute to addressing the affordable housing crisis caused primarily by the buoyant local economy

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Innovation in council housebuilding – Nuneaton

Nuneaton Borough Council is committed to an ongoing programme of new council housebuilding and the purchase and acquisition of existing stock. The size of the programme is relatively small but helps address two key issues – the lack of affordable housing and tackling the homelessness crisis. Each specific project is robustly evaluated in terms of viability and its relationship to other corporate objectives. 

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