By Jack Foster.The benefit of having a work-force that is idea-prone can hardly be overstated. Ideaship aims to help organizations turn average employees into great ones, by helping them to have more and better ideas. Ideaship is about how you can better make the people you work with more creative. According to Jack Foster, the primary job of a leader (what he calls an “Ideaer”) is to raise people’s self-esteem, to make it fun to come to work. Ideaship details thirty-nine ways to respond to people who are difficult to lead, but who are amenable to being “ideaed.” It flips traditional leadership on its head and shows how simple acts of compassion, trust, and generosity of spirit, as well as some seemingly zany actions, can unleash unexpected, vital bursts of creativity.

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More areas are to get targeted support to help local police forces build partnerships to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. The Home Office Minister, Bob Ainsworth, has announced five new policing priority areas  in Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Durham, Sussex and Norfolk.The new areas – covering Mansfield, Salford, Hastings, Easington, and Great Yarmouth – will join the Grange Estate, Stoke, Camberwell Green in Southwark, Rhyl’s West Ward, and Little Horton and Canterbury in Bradford where projects are set to continue. The extension of the scheme follows significant success in reducing crime and providing public reassurance in those existing priority areas since their launch last year.

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Local authorities have welcomed proposals in the draft Housing Bill which will give greater powers to councils to license certain types of accommodation. The Local Government Association had lobbied for the move as it believes it will improve both the standard of rented housing and protection for tenants.The draft Bill, which was published yesterday, includes two new local authority-run licensing schemes. One involves houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and is designed to ensure the easier enforcement of higher standards of maintenance and management. The other proposal is that councils should be given powers for licensing private landlords in areas of low housing demand.

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