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This research project explored how refugee community organisations (RCOs) could become more involved in the government's health agenda to improve the level of consultation and responsiveness in the design and provision of mental health services for ethnic minorities. The method involved a review of relevant literature, interviews with refugee community organisation leaders and community workers, and a survey of refugee service users' involvement with RCOs. The research found that the causes and effects of mental ill health in refugees as understood by interviewees were consistent with much of the literature in this area. The mental health needs of refugees are very similar across nationalities and ethnicities, and distinct from those of the general population and of other migrant groups. Appropriate responses, as understood by community leaders and professional community workers, are currently only partly and insufficiently provided by statutory health services, and there is extensive unmet need.

This article is concerned with strategies for combating health inequalities for refugees. It explores a service provider's (St Pancras Refugee Centre) response to the mental health and social care needs of refugees in the London Borough of Camden. Drawing on primary and secondary research, the article presents relevant findings and theoretical discourse in this area. It also draws on my own experience of working with refugees, providing a holistic approach to their social care requirements. The main focus is an examination of how social care and mental health needs are addressed. The article argues that providers need to develop services which engage with users on a mutually beneficial level in order to combat health inequalities and provide adequate health and social care provision.

This research was provoked by the apparent lack of a consistent information base for commercial office floorspace statistics for London. Each of a variety of sources seem to offer different magnitudes for the total floorspace stock. Beyond this we attempted to disaggregate floorspace figures by unit size, in order to ascertain a clearer picture of the composition of office floorspace and to assess changes in this over time.

Examines the effects of non‐domestic rates on rental values, and investigates whether a differing rate poundage between two otherwise comparable areas will result in a rental value differential between those areas. Presents the phenomenon as tested in relation to two office markets around midtown London, UK. Shows that while rental values in the first market were lower, the difference was not sufficient to compensate for the difference in rates. Concludes that the property market does not have a sufficiently perfect pricing mechanism.

Before considering the financial responsibilities of a Director of Libraries and Arts in a local authority, I would like to set the scene in my own authority, the London Borough of Camden, in order to put my remarks in context.

This article outlines the problem‐solving approach used by the Partnership Information Unit in Camden to direct and evaluate its local neighborhood policing initiatives. It demonstrates the methodology, strengths and benefits, as well as the implications for adopting the model. It also details an example of how this approach was used on a housing estate in Kentish Town, and the results. The Partnership Information Unit won a commendation in 2008/09 and a national award in 2009/10 from the Association of Crime Intelligence Analysts for its problem‐solving framework.

In 1888 the London County Council was established as the primary local authority for the area now known as Inner London. Twelve years later the parishes within the county were organised into 28 Metropolitan Boroughs which, together with the unchanged City of London, formed the second tier of local government. Twenty of the new boroughs inherited library powers because one or more of their constituent parishes had adopted the Public Libraries Acts before 1900. The eight boroughs which started without public libraries were Bethnal Green, Deptford, Greenwich, Hackney, Islington, Paddington, St. Marylebone and St. Pancras. Five of these adopted the Acts within a few years. Bethnal Green, Paddington and St. Marylebone on the other hand held out against the trend. Even the generosity of library benefactors could be rejected by diehards: Paddington refused a Carnegie grant of £15,000 to establish a service.

Commissioners of adult health and social care services in the London Borough of Camden are keen to see the spread of evidence‐based practices in mental health and employment services. Jobs in Mind, a trusted third sector provider already delivering employment support services in the borough since 1999, was uniquely placed to expand its service delivery into a partnership with the local NHS trust to deliver an innovative individual placement and support (IPS) pilot. A Life in the Day went to Camden to find out how it is going.

The London Borough of Camden assumed responsibility for education in April 1990 upon abolition of the Inner London Education Authority.

Camden rejected a viewdata solution to user information needs as being too highly structured in its approach and instead opted for a customised version of Geac's new Community Information System (CIS) based on that company's existing Local Information System software. Data from the authority's DataEase Adult Education database were incorporated into CINDEX (Camden Community Information Network Directory and Exchange) by uploading files from the former to the latter. A variety of online and offline methods of access and reporting are described.