This report from the Society of IT Management describes ICT as having poor ‘green’ credentials. It currently accounts for some 2% of global CO2 emissions, which is the same amount as that of the ...

Written by leading academics in the field of local governance, finance, systems thinking and politics, this topical book examines and debates the challenges posed, on a local, European and global ...

Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population published in 2008 recognised the beneficial impact that work can have on an individual’s state of health and that work is ...

A Select Parliamentary Committee has challenged the effectiveness of the Troubled Families programme and criticised the Communities Department for its handling of the evaluation report. The programme, ...

Publication of ‘Public Bodies 1999’ – a comprehensive listing of non-departmental public bodies – has highlighted how few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are represented on such ...

seven contributors address the question: ‘What are the implications of theories of organization for social living’, with particular reference to the needs of management education. Published by ...

Content management specialist SynApps Solutions’ Gary Britnell discusses the biggest problem NHS IT leaders have right now: getting computers to talk to each other. “If I had any one piece of advice ...

The Government has issued a discussion paper on ways to promote good conduct and so build public confidence in local authorities. The paper incorporates responses to a number of recent recommendations ...

The Minister for the Third Sector has challenged the sector to show the way in transforming public services. The challenge comes with a number of new developments demonstrating the Government’s ...

The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence—an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central ...

Mary Portas has set out a vision for town centres and called for joint action to put the heart back into the centre of high streets. The Review makes ambitious recommendations on what can be done by ...

A Welsh council has been ordered by the Information Commissioner to release the latest hygiene inspection report for a local hotel under the Freedom of Information Act. The decision to make Bridgend ...