Important documents on a range of public policy issues produced between 1973 and late 1990s.
Archive of key Centre for Public Services and SCAT reports
Published on 18th July 2012. Last updated 11th February 2026.
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Up Against a Brickwall: The dead-end in housing policy, National Union of Public Employees and Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, February, 1978
Since the election of the Labour Government in February 1974, the struggle to achieve decent housing for all sections of the community has suffered a number of major setbacks. First, by October 1977 the Government had cut an estimated £1,250m from the housing programme. Second, under the guise of ‘rationalisation’, the Government has introduced tough…