NEW BODY WILL CHAMPION LOCAL ISSUES
A new panel has been set up to champion the issues that are the heart of local communities. The policy panel, which brings together leading public sector figures and academics, is being facilitated by the Local Government Information Unit. The new group aims to develop new thinking and direction to help local government to cope with future challenges in a changing political and social context.
TRANSPORT BILL ‘A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY’ FOR LOCAL COUNCILS
The Government’s Draft Local Transport Bill has been welcomed as a golden opportunity to tackle long standing problems and deliver better transport. The Local Government Association said the Bill had taken on board calls for councils to be given greater control in improving transport services but it said local authorities were now on the front line of the debate on road pricing.
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This report sponsored by the OLM Group, a supplier of information solutions for children’s and adult services, explores the operational issues of how local government can ensure their Local Area Agreements successfully progress to the next level of development.It highlights questions that Senior Officers can apply to assess their readiness for the challenges that lie ahead in relation to LAAs. It encourages consideration of a range of topics to help ensure that local agreements successfully navigate the next stage of development from addressing issues such as time constraints to the importance of establishing clear plans.
This report from the Institute for Public Policy Research argues that the British civil service needs to drop its ‘we know best’ mentality and learn from countries like Canada, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand and Singapore. It describes the Whitehall policy-making process as closed and insular, often conducted behind closed doors and without external expertise.It also claims that there is a gulf between those designing policy in Whitehall and those delivering it on the front-line. The civil service sees itself as a distinct and separate part of the public service. Policy is not evaluated on a systematic and ongoing basis. The mantra of ‘what matters is what works’ is undermined by the fact that the civil service often does not know what works.
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