This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association. http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pmpa/index.cfm Local ...

The Health Secretary has promised that more than a hundred leading doctors, nurses and managers are to help draw up a national plan for the NHS.It follows the announcement of extra money for the ...

This report from the Local Government Association calls on the Government to adopt proposals to combat climate change and fight fuel poverty. It advocates a stronger role for local councils and local ...

Reproduced by permission of the Public Management and Policy Association. Consultation fatigue is something we have been hearing about in the public sector for many years now; and it has always been a ...

Local Education Authorities will have to meet new standards in special school buildings and facilities for special educational provision in mainstream schools. They have been set out in new draft ...

The guide from Bristol City Council has been designed to help other local authorities develop e-participation tools that can encourage much wider community engagement. The experience of the corporate ...

Dementia sufferers and kidney dialysis patients are among the older people who have experienced IT for the first time through a partnership project between Age Concern and Microsoft.Hundreds more ...

A report released today questions whether people and organisations are really participating in decision making about their communities. The new booklet, “Localism and local governance”, has been ...

Councils are being urged to create ‘naked streets’ with fewer signs, traffic lights and what campaigners call clutter. The call has come from the charity Living Streets, a national organisation ...

The Government has begun seeking people’s views on a new charter which would set out what people can expect from public bodies handling personal information and what safeguards should be in place for ...

More than half of the local councils, which have been granted Beacon Status in the latest round of the scheme to reward the best public services, are receiving the award for the first time. The 54 ...

The aim of this book is to help the reader become better at preparing and doing presentations. There is a secondary aim. This is to be part of the process of ridding the world of poor presentations, ...