LEADER PUTS CASE FOR LESS FREQUENT WASTE COLLECTIONS

The leader of the Local Government Agency has stressed his support for councils that have ended weekly household waste collections and moved to fortnightly bin emptying. Sandy Bruce-Lockhart said local authorities were under financial and legal pressure to cut the amount of rubbish being sent to landfill.

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REPORT DETAILS LIBRARIES’ IMPACT ON PUPILS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

A comprehensive report into the way libraries can make a difference to children’s learning will be launched later this week in Bristol . It has been drawn up by independent consultants, Morris, Hargreaves McIntyre, who were commissioned by the city’s Library Service to look into how both public and school libraries could help to build confidence and boost pupils’ achievements.

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By Sue Richards and Su Maddock.This report published by the National School of Government, summarizes the conference ‘Putting People First’ which was attended by over 300 senior public service figures.

One of the conference’s key themes was the need to recognise that much of the leadership of public service reform is taking place at the front-line, and at local government and local community level. Governments need to devolve power and resources from the centre to those delivering public services, in order to make improvement in those services self-sustaining. For this to happen public policy makers and managers will often have to work across the boundaries between different sectors, levels of government, and services. This has profound implications for the ways in which leaders are developed.

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