This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. Telford & Wrekin Borough and Shropshire County Council, joint Children’s Services Trailblazer, have worked together with Ciber UK to implement a Microsoft technology-based ISA solution. The video reviews their experience and how they have connected the different agencies and teams to share information and to deliver a coordinated set of services to 40,000 Children and Young People. The case study is part of the programme “Sharing and Partnership – A Future for Council Services?” It examines the potential to further raise the efficiency and quality of front-line services and back-office functions through a more collaborative approach between councils.GovTV (www.eGovTV.tv) is a dedicated web-cast television channel for governors of public bodies, council members and senior executives across all public sector organisations and is available free to an unlimited audience at anytime, at any location via the internet. The programme can be viewed at: http://www.egovtv.tv/programmes/Sharing%20and%20Partnership%20A%20Future%20For%20Council%20Services
Local authorities get new powers from today to deal with fly-tipping and litter as the first of the measures in the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act comes into force. From today fly-tipping becomes an arrestable offence and the most serious cases could result in maximum fines of 50,000 pounds or five years in prison.The new measures mean that people caught dumping waste will also no longer be able to use the defence of ‘acting under employer’s instructions’. The hard-line approach is in line with the Government’s commitment to tackle fly-tipping, at a time when new figures show there is an illegal tipping incident somewhere in Britain every 35 seconds.
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The Government is being urged to change the emphasis of its campaign against anti-social behaviour to show it can tackle the underlying causes, as well as taking a hard line with those responsible for the trouble. Research released today shows that two thirds of adults believe preventive action would be the most effective way to deal with intimidating behaviour, vandalism and other anti-social problems.The study, carried out for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by researchers at King’s College London, reveals that only 20 per cent of people interviewed in a specially-commissioned national survey saw tough action against those accused of anti-social behaviour as the best way forward. A further 11 per cent wanted to see a combined approach using prevention and enforcement.
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