Archives for January 29th, 2007

TWENTY SIX BIDS FOR UNITARY AUTHORITY STATUS

Headlines, PublicNet: 29 January, 2007

TWENTY SIX BIDS FOR UNITARY AUTHORITY STATUS

 

More than two dozen proposals have been put forward by local councils in England that wish to become unitary authorities. The applications have been welcomed by the Communities and Local Government Secretary, Ruth Kelly, although the Government has already warned that it is unlikely to implement more than 8 proposals.

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PUBLIC FAVOUR ‘DIXON-STYLE’ COMMUNITY POLICING

Headlines, PublicNet: 29 January, 2007

PUBLIC FAVOUR ‘DIXON-STYLE’ COMMUNITY POLICING

 

Researchers have found that people would like to see higher-quality community policing of the type epitomised by PC George Dixon in the old television series “Dixon of Dock Green”. The study was carried out by The City University, London for The Police Foundation in response to the Home Office’s drive towards every area of the country having Neighbourhood Policing Teams by 2008.

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THE MODERNISATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES

Abstracts, PublicNet: 29 January, 2007

This report from the Society of IT Management reveals a fall in local government IT expenditure to 2.7b pounds, which is just below the 2004 level. Growth in staffing also came to an abrupt end with reduction in the number of consultants employed, which accounted for most of the change.IT managers who responded to the SOCTIM survey are ‘fairly positive’ about shared services as a means to deliver efficiency. Sharing staff resources over a region or even wider may offer further large savings, says the report, while doing things once and sharing the solution with the whole of the government sector may offer another good way forward. Partnerships and outsourcing are the other strategies most mentioned by IT managers considering ways of bridging the resource gap.

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