By Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. DealIn this third edition of their best-selling classic, the authors explain the powerful tool of ‘reframing’. They have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples.

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Fourteen police forces are to get financial help to build community partnerships to tackle crime, under the Policing Priority Areas scheme. The seven hundred thousand pound funding has been announced by the Home Secretary, David Blunkett.The funding will support the creation of new Priority Areas to help forces promote effective partnership working in specific neighbourhoods. The policy is based on evidence that co-ordinated and targeted action by the police and other agencies cuts crime and anti-social behaviour and can help to turn round communities that are facing problems. The announcement brings the national total of PPAs to twenty-seven since the idea was launched in March 2002.

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The final stages of the Electoral Commission consultation on the funding of political parties, begins today with the first of a series of public hearings of evidence. This evening will also see an open debate on the issues at the House of Commons.The hearings, which are scheduled to take place in a number of major cities, begin in London when the first evidence will be taken from political parties, trade unions, major donors, think tanks and others. The first session will be followed by a public debate organised by the Commission. It will feature contributions from MPs Andrew Tyrie and Tom Watson.

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