Archives for January 18th, 2006

THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND MANAGERIAL ROLES

Abstracts, PublicNet: 18 January, 2006

By Reginald Butterfield, Christine Edwards and Jean WoodallThis paper explores the introduction of New Public Management techniques within the UK police service since the late 1990s, and in particular, the impact upon the role of the first line manager: the police sergeant. The paper makes a number of conclusions relating to the role of police sergeants. These echo the findings of other research on changes in managerial roles, including a shift towards more strategic responsibilities, but with a significant intensification of work, tighter control and scrutiny through organizational performance management systems, and less daily contact with their police constables.

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GERSHON EFFICIENCY SAVINGS PROMPT STRIKE THREAT

Headlines, PublicNet: 18 January, 2006

The Public and Commercial Services Union has called a two day strike in the Department of Work and Pensions for the 26 and 27 January in protest at job cuts. As a result of the report produced by Sir Peter Gershon former Head of the Office for Government Commerce, the Department is due to reduce staffing by a further 30,000 posts. The staff has already been cut by 15,000. The Gershon report recommended that by 2007/08 central government should make annual savings of 8b pounds and that local government and the health service each contribute some 6.4m pounds annually.In the report ‘Releasing Resources to the Front Line – Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency’, published in July 2004, the Department of Work and Pensions was singled out for praise. Although across the public sector there had been a widespread failure to restructure processes to reduce paper handling, the Department had succeeded where others failed to tread. The cost of processing a payment had been reduced from 1 pound to 2p.

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CALL TO RE-THINK APPROACH TO INNER CITY HOUSING

Headlines, PublicNet: 18 January, 2006

A lack of new well-designed family homes for sale could undermine Government plans to revitalise Britain’s inner cities, according to research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Unless developers build more homes suitable for growing families in the new mixed income housing developments, then hopes to improve schools and services for families already living in inner city neighbourhoods may not be realised.The study focused on four contrasting mixed income inner city developments. It found that family homes built for sale were not available in sufficient numbers, or were too small or poorly designed for families. In two newly built London neighbourhoods that were studied, 8 out of 10 private homes had only one or two bedrooms. It also found that in regenerated low income neighbourhoods, more family homes were built and families on moderate incomes bought them in the initial stages. But as land values rose, these households could not afford to move to larger homes as their families grew and similar families could not afford to move in. The result was that in all four areas studied the proportion of families with children in the private sector homes was considerably lower than in the population at large.

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