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	<description>County Councillor Philip Atkins</description>
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		<title>One good turn deserves another</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From helpin to find loving homes for troubled young people to attracting multinational companies to set up operations in Staffordshire and create new jobs for local people, the County Council provides many services to different groups with different needs. But I look at each service as an investment – a way of enabling these groups of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrust &#8211; announced as the new name for our joint venture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrust is the new name for the 49% county council owned pioneering company with an  in sourcing partnership with Capita to provide innovative support for our schools. It will operate under the name &#8220;Entrust&#8221;, with its headquarters right here in Stafford.  Entrust will help to improve our schools with everything from ICT, ground maintenance, catering  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through to the next round of the City Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m delighted to report that our bid for the City Deal is one of those to go forward to the next phase!  Our joint bid with Stoke on Trent City Council for the £1billion investment package has been shortlisted for the list of potential areas for the next wave of talks, thus beginning several months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nation Farmers&#8217; Union meets with HS2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Stafford Showground recently where around 180 concerned farmers were gathered to discuss HS2, the new high speed rail development that will pass through Staffordshire. The development will cut its way through large areas of Staffordshire as it travels to Manchester, impacting farms, homes and communities. The gathering was organised by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis report calls for a &#8220;patient-centred culture&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as importance is concerned, this is perhaps the most significant week for Staffordshire I can remember. The Francis Inquiry issued its second report this week into the problems with Mid-Staffordshire hospitals, calling for a “patient-centred culture”, a no tolerance attitude to poor care, and sweeping recommendations to transform the NHS. I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis report due out tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://blog.scchost.org.uk/leadersblog/?p=1379</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to see the council’s benchmark of saving £133m over the past four years and the work done to promote private sector investment recognised in a new way. SCC was named as Council of the week by Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis’ in this blog piece here. It’s good to see recognition by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Deal submitted</title>
		<link>http://blog.scchost.org.uk/leadersblog/?p=1373</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Communications</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent cold snap has bitten many parts of the country, and the arrival of the snow and predictions of more this weekend is sure to deliver some disruptions. I’d like to remind everyone if you are out and about on the roads, please take care.  If you are at all worried about conditions this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More treasure for Staffordshire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve shared the excitement surrounding the further finds in that famous field in Hammerwich, where yet more gold has been determined to be part of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest Anglo-Saxon collection of gold yet found. The further 81 pieces, it has been decided, are officially &#8220;Treasure&#8221; according to the coroner, making it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staffordshire in the New Year</title>
		<link>http://blog.scchost.org.uk/leadersblog/?p=1362</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone had a very happy new year’s to round off what was a memorable one in all regards. It was a great year for the country and the county with the participation of the public in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and London 2012 Olympic Games. I’d like to congratulate all Staffordshire’s recipients in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Staffordshire Hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Staffordshire’s most famous field hasn’t finished with us yet. The recently ploughed field in Hammersly, which three years ago turned up the internationally famous Staffordshire Hoard, has revealed a further ninety pieces of historic gold. This adds to the 3,500 pieces found in 2009, with most of the pieces this time weighing less [...]]]></description>
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