01 - 2010 News
January 28th 2010
Speaking at the New Local Government Network (NLGN) Annual Conference 2010, Rt Hon John Denham, MP, laid out how councils must protect and improve their services whilst making substantial efficiency savings: “Local people will be rightly intolerant if they are told that front line services will be cut when their council hasn’t taken tough decisions to introduce shared services…”
January 27th 2010
It has been some decades since the country embarked on a programme of building new settlements, and this time around the government's policies for housing and communities need to reflect today's housing demand, need for empowered communities and environmental concerns. The website, Future Communities, looks at how to include local people in the design, development and long-term stewardship of new communities.
January 27th 2010
'Everyday Innovation: How to enhance innovative working in employees and organisations' focuses on the critical role employee characteristics and behaviours play in innovative working and reveals the key organisational factors that enable or inhibit innovation.
January 27th 2010
"The North West region, supported by NWIEP, has had a successful eighteen months of reducing costs and duplication, improving efficiency and increasing collaboration across the public sector. The result has been the delivery of better outcomes for local people and local communities." (NWIEP Highlight Report, Jan 2010)
January 27th 2010
The widening gap in inequality in the UK is a key issue in government at all levels. This is the latest report from the National Equality Panel, 'An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK'.
January 27th 2010
The Total Place interim report... The Leadership Centre has commissioned Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership and Management at Warwick Business School, to deliver a report that draws some provisional conclusions from the Total Place Initiative established in 2009.
January 19th 2010
Welcome to the ninth edition of the Cumbria Improvement and Efficiency Communique...
January 4th 2010
Health spending has been ring fenced by the Chancellor, but that doesn't mean that efficiencies shouldn't be made if possible. With this in mind the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) have been examining the business case for preventative care.