The Scottish Executive is urging businesses in the country to aid national commitment to biodiversity.The measure is part of the attempt to honour the UK’s commitment to conserving the earth’s natural resources for future generations, made at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
The Government is pressing ahead with more Education Action Zones (EAZs) to help raise standards in inner-city schools across the country.Part of the Government’s bigger education programme, ‘Excellence in Cities’, each zone focuses on one or more secondary schools and their feeder primaries with the aim of boosting exam results and reducing disaffection.
Sanderson IPublic sector reforms throughout OECD member states are producing a new model of ‘public governance’ embodying a more modest role for the state and a strong emphasis on performance management. In the UK, the development of performance management has been primarily ‘top-down’ with a dominant concern for enhancing control and ‘upwards account-ability’ rather than promoting learning and improvement. The development of performance management and evaluation in local government in the UK has been conditioned by external pressures, especially reforms imposed by central government, which have encouraged an ‘instrumental-managerial’ focus on performance measurement. However, recent research has indicated that the capacity for evaluation in local government is uneven and many obstacles to evaluation exist in organizational cultures. Local authorities need to go beyond the development of review systems and processes to ensure that the capacity for evaluation and learning is embedded as an attribute of ‘culture’ in order to achieve the purpose of Best Value.
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