McDermott RThe Journal for Quality and Participation, (USA), Mar/Apr 1999 Vol 22 No 2.

Start page: 22. No of pages: 5.

Compares the skills necessary to implement organizational change with those required of political campaigners. Emphasizes the need to attract support and share the vision. Suggests the outline of a campaign strategy, stressing the need for commitment, clarity of message, effective communication of the required message, and recruitment of ‘campaign’ staff to research, manage and monitor campaigning.

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The Civil Service has continued to employ more women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds in senior posts, more part-timers, and more and more staff are based outside London.That is according to the Civil Service Statistics 1999. The publication highlights key trends in civil service staffing for the period up to 1 April 1999.

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The Local Government Association (LGA), which has made strenuous efforts to be seen to work with the Labour administration, has criticised latest plans for failing schools as ‘half-baked gimmicks.’In an unusually strong rebuff to Government plans, the LGA says plans to turn the worst inner city schools into ‘City Academies’, managed by business, church and community leaders as a cover designed to deflect attention from the failure of another initiative, Fresh Start.

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