By Russell M. LindenThis is a practical guide for nonprofit and government professionals who want to learn the techniques and strategies of successful collaboration. It offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows them how to adopt strategies that have proved successful with a wide range of organizations. Filled with in-depth case studies- including a particularly challenging case in which police officers and social workers overcome the inherent differences in their cultures to help abused children- the book clearly shows how organizations have dealt with the hard issues of collaboration. Working Across Boundaries includes guidelines for determining what kinds of projects lend themselves to collaboration and which do not, suggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls of collaboration and strategies proved to work consistently.
A new report looks in detail at public attitudes to day to day contact with the government and the prospects for the electronic delivery of services.The research, from the Department for Work and Pensions, highlights a range of barriers which stop people taking up the department’s on-line services. They include general opposition to the Internet and specific concerns about aspects of services such as sending personal details on line.
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Twenty-five local councils are to act as pathfinders for government plans to develop extended schools for the community. The announcement has been welcomed by the Local Government Association.The proposals were announced at a conference organised jointly by the LGA and the Department for Education and Skills. Baroness Cathy Ashton, the parliamentary under secretary at the DES, launched guidance that would enable a range of pupil, family and community services to be delivered from the school site. The selected councils will help to develop the concept.
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