A panel was set up in the Strategy Unit in 2001 to distil the experience of pilot trials for potential policy changes. This report summarises the findings of the panel. The recommendations add up to a ...

Following successful piloting, councils are being invited to subscribe to the LetsHelpYou website which allows tenants to find more affordable accommodation in the private rental sector. The council ...

A group of local authorities in north-west England have been nominated for a prestigious award for organising a series of reverse e-auctions to keep down the costs of procuring goods and services for ...

Organisations in the public and private sectors are responding to new challenges by adopting new ways of working which are believed to create more stress for workers. Research carried out by Corporate ...

“The Skills Plus centre at Ashford Gateway has proved really popular and numbers of adults attending regularly to improve their skills have exceeded our expectations. I believe the Gateway concept ...

Reviews the fifteen years since the publication of his book, ‘The Learning Organization’. Examines the extent to which the concepts of ‘organizational learning’ and the ‘learning organization’ have ...

Local government unions are calling for a pay rise at least in line with the rate of inflation. UNISON, GMB and UNITE also want additional increases for lower paid workers. Their claim comes as local ...

Six Midlands local authorities have joined a community learning charity to share good practice between extended schools. The partnership has been established by ContinYou, which provides a range of ...

In a speech to business leaders in Birmingham and an interview with the Financial Times, Conservative party leader, Iain Duncan Smith set out his view of the political scene and a route map for ...

The Government has officially handed over the job of running Islington’s schools to a private consortium.Cambridge Education Associates have won the job after Islington Council’s consistently poor ...

This report from the Society of IT Management explores the experience of dealing with local government by phone from a citizen’s perspective. The research used ‘mystery shopping’ to sample the ...

This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes how advances in mobile point of care technology are helping to ...