Press cuttings and other material relating to David Blunkett's political career in Sheffield and his leadership of Sheffield City Council. Includes material relating to: rise in Sheffield council rates, and notes/paper entitled 'How do you rate the rates?'; unsuccessful bid for an 'enterprise zone' for Attercliffe; and the Labour council's fight against the government's right to buy policy, April 1981. Also includes notes by Blunkett on a visit to Mondragon, Spain, by a delegation from Sheffield to investigate its successful co-operative movement, April 1981; profiles of Blunkett in The Local Government Chronicle, 28 August 1981 and in Community Care, 19 November 1981; and article by Blunkett in Social Work Today entitled 'The community and the local state'.