Two thousand delegates are expected to attend the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit in January, which will be the largest event of its kind to be staged in this country. The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, has announced that three senior Cabinet colleagues – Gordon Brown, David Blunkett and Charles Clarke – have joined the list of speakers for the summit.In addition to listening to speakers and taking part in the 24 planned workshop sessions, delegates will have the opportunity to see for themselves successful projects in and around Manchester, Salford and Trafford. There will be a walking tour of Manchester City Centre looking at the regeneration that has taken place since the 1996 bomb as well as a chance to see the legacy left to East Manchester by the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the innovative Partington Heath Park.
A groundbreaking performance management tool, which is now available online, is the first result of an eight month collaboration between four leading local government organisations.The Improvement Network is available via http://www.improvementnetwork.gov.uk/ and has been developed by the Audit Commission, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the Employers’ Organisation for local government and the Improvement and Development Agency. They have pooled their expertise to give local government managers a single point of access for improvement information.
This report produced by the Kings’ Fund and the NHS Development Agency discusses the potential for the NHS to contribute as a good corporate citizen to local regeneration and sustainable development through its procurement, employment, capital build, transport and waste-management activities. It highlights general trends in these activities across the regions and provides an overview of the national policy context. It also explains how health sector policies are integrated with regional policies and describes the potential role the NHS could play in each region. The report is based on an analysis of documents from a variety of sources, particularly regional agencies, and interviews with policy makers and professionals in the regions, central government, NHS organisations and non-governmental organisations.Published by the Health Development Agency ISBN: 1842794116. http://www.hdaonline.org.uk/Documents/corp_citizenship.pdf
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