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NHMF Service Provider Forum | Facing challenges together

|Date: 4 May, 2023

NHMF Service Provider Forum | Facing challenges together

LABM recently caught up with Mike Turner, the Chair of the National Housing Maintenance Forum (NHMF) Serv ...

LABM recently caught up with Mike Turner, the Chair of the National Housing Maintenance Forum (NHMF) Service Provider Forum (previously the Contractor Forum) to learn about the organisation, its plans ...

4 May, 2023
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Skills boost for planning authorities to create better neighbourhoods

|Date: 21 March, 2023

Skills boost for planning authorities to create better neighbourhoods

More skilled planning professionals will be recruited by councils following a £1m funding boost from the ...

More skilled planning professionals will be recruited by councils following a £1m funding boost from the Government, announced by the Housing Minister. Social enterprise Public Practice will use the m ...

21 March, 2023
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Social value and encouraging a better gender balance in public sector construction

|Date: 9 March, 2021

Social value and encouraging a better gender balance in public sector construction

Social value is not a new term but it’s one that we can expect to hear a whole lot more as 2021 unfolds. ...

Social value is not a new term but it’s one that we can expect to hear a whole lot more as 2021 unfolds. As part of Women in Construction Week, Kevin O’Connor, Head of Social Value and Inclusion at Du ...

9 March, 2021
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