Archives for October 25th, 2005

LEARNING FROM COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Abstracts, PublicNet: 25 October, 2005

The Audit Commission has analysed the performance of the smaller district councils in the year ending December 2004 and identified breakthrough areas for councils to focus to meet the challenge of performance improvement. The areas are:*    Lead and manage effectively
*    Pull together
*    Make time to listen and learn
*    Look outwards
*    Take a long-term view
*    Embed performance management and other systems
*    Stick with change and improvement
*    Prepare for the future and reach for new heights for continuous
improvement

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UNION SAYS NEW REPORT ‘NAILS CLAIMS’ OVER PFI SCHEMES

Headlines, PublicNet: 25 October, 2005

Britain’s largest union – UNISON – is claiming a new report shows that Private Finance Initiative schemes do not out-perform public sector projects by coming in on time and on budget. The union says the report, “A Policy Built on Sand”, ‘nails the claim that the extra costs of PFI are offset by increased efficiency’.UNISON says the report, produced by Professor Allyson Pollock, David Price and Stewart Player from the Public Health Policy Unit, at University College, London, also knocks out the Government’s arguments for the continued use of PFI schemes to build hospitals, schools and other public sector projects. The union says that with 677 PFI projects approved since 1992, the Treasury has not fulfilled its objective of a “sound evidence base” for a “rigorous investigation” of PFI.

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SCOTTISH E-GOVERNMENT INNOVATION SHORTLISTED FOR EURO AWARD

Headlines, PublicNet: 25 October, 2005

The Scottish Parliament’s innoavtive use of e-petitioning, allowing people across the country to interact with its Public Petitions Committee, has been shortlisted for a prestigious European award. The eEurope Awards for eGovernment are designed to recognise and reward best practice in internet projects among member states of the European Union, as well as in candidate countries and those states in the European Fair Trade Association.The nomination for the Public Petitions Committee comes after its pioneering use of the Internet as a tool for democratic engagement was highlighted at an international seminar earlier this month. The committee is a finalist in the Service User category of the awards, which will be presented at a two-day event in Manchester next month.

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