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	<description>County Councillor Philip Atkins</description>
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		<title>Westminster calling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I’m in Westminster at the Local Government Association (LGA). It’s my induction into the Executive of the Local Government Group. I will represent not only Staffordshire, but the West Midlands region on the Executive in my capacity of Chairman of West Midlands Councils. The LGA represents 422 councils from across England and Wales, and speaks on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New skills on the horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone had a good Bank Holiday weekend. Thank goodness the weather took a turn for the better. It meant we could make some progress with the harvest after an otherwise wet and frustrating August. On Friday I did have time to visit the new JCB Academy which is in my own Uttoxeter Rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Knot out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks, we are approaching a couple of anniversary’s  – one more recent than the last, but both steeped in history. It is almost a year since the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard was announced. This is without doubt the most important archaeological discovery in Britain of recent decades. It captured the imagination of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting in the fieldwork</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just finished Cabinet. Traditionally August is a quiet month in local government, but we had a full agenda with the LEP and school transport up for discussion among other things. I’m about to give an interview with Midlands Today on the coalition Government’s first 100 days in Government. They’re talking to me not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from the best</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with Noreen Oliver, the inspiration behind the pioneering Burton Addiction Centre, today.  It’s the first time we’ve met since she received her lifetime achievement award from Iain Duncan Smith in his capacity as founder of the Centre for Social Justice.  The award is well deserved. Noreen has built up the centres (there’s another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the national arena</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I attended an event in Birmingham hosted by David Cameron for local business and government leaders. I discussed our Tipping Street development with Caroline Spellman MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Tipping Street will help transform the way we deliver services through modern and flexible ways of working – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest time patience</title>
		<link>http://staffscc.net/leadersblog/?p=691</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvest time is upon us, so I’ll be working exceptionally long hours juggling business on the farm with my county council responsibilities. Staffordshire farm still produce a considerable portion of the county’s employment and I would like to make a seasonal plea on behalf of the agricultural community. Please be patient if you find yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not updating for a while, but it’s been a busy week. On Wednesday I travelled to London to take part in a round-table discussion on Local Enterprise Partnerships hosted by Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. As you can see from previous entries these partnerships will play a key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a busy and demanding week with decisions continuing to flow from the new Coalition Government. Cabinet yesterday discussed how we would meet our greatest challenge – saving £120 million from our budget over the next three years. This represents a 30 per cent saving over 3 years but is our crucial contribution to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For north of Birmingham read “centre of the country”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scrapping of regional development agencies, including Advantage west Midlands, was one of the big talking points at last week’s Local Government Association conference. Local authorities will now have a pivotal role in the development of economic development across the region. We are working with our local authority partners to work on their successors – [...]]]></description>
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