Organizational Learning
Lank E
People Management, (UK), 19 Feb 98 (4/4)
Start page: 40 No of pages: 3
Profiles how ICL, the UK computer firm, has approached organizational learning and knowledge management in its worldwide businesses. Focuses on the internal information services available to employees, describing how the organization has set up a project called Project Vik (Valuing ICL Knowledge) to create a global information service, Cafe Vik, using ICL’s intranet. 

There’s growing pressure to give people living in rural areas a greater voice - following the publication today of a new ‘White Paper’ on countryside issues.
The paper comes from the Local Government Association, which speaks for all types of local council, but is admitting that its rural member authorities are losing out to the big cities. 

There’s been a prediction that major disruption caused by re-organisation in the NHS could cast a shadow over the opportunity for developing partnerships with local councils. 

MacLachlan R
People Management, (UK), 5 Feb 98 (4/3)
Start page: 36 No of pages: 2
Interviews Hugh Taylor, HR director on the NHS Executive, about his career to date and the issues that he will have to deal with in his new role at the NHS Executive. Focuses on the experience he gained in personnel issues during his work at the Prison Service when he managed the transition of the Service to agency status. 

The Government says that the setting up of a new mechanism for talking direct to disabled people is a significant step to giving them a real voice on the formation of policies that affect them.
The Disability Benefits Forum will consider options for changes in the ways of accessing benefits for long-term sick and disabled people and their carers, and also how to ensure help is directed to those who most need it. 

The Secretary of State for Education, David Blunkett, has told senior managers in local government that they should take the lead in forging a new role for themselves.
He told the annual conference of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives that they could not expect to wait until national Government outlined the role - but seize the opportunity to switch from being service driven to community leadership. 

Business Planning is an essential tool for managing resources such that service delivery is maximised. This book sets out the process of business planning and how it can be used within a public sector environment. It includes topics such as undertaking SWOT analysis, establishing aims and objectives and building future strategies. The book includes self development exercises and illustrative examples.
HB Publications. 0171 428 9001

A major childcare management strategy - to tackle the problem of erratic and unfocused work in children’s services - will be developed and launched later this year by the Department of Health.
The revelation comes in a new report summarising several recent findings of inspections into the quality of care provided by social services departments. These show there area several areas where there is serious concern about services for children. 

The Home Office Minister Alun Michael has urged the Police and local councils to aim for an equal partnership in their efforts to meet the challenges of the Crime and Disorder Bill.
And he told the annual conference of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives that there would be no room for ‘criminally irresponsible’ attitudes of non-co-operation and competitiveness between individual councils when drawing up the essential first stage of the bill’s demands. 

Rohan Collier
This book gives practical advice on how organizations delivering a service to the public can meet the needs of different groups of people. Using examples from the private, public and voluntary sectors, Rohan Collier explains how to develop and implement equalities policies which effect real change.