By Nigel Pressnell. Schools have invested heavily in IT equipment and infrastructure and this has brought a new challenge of managing the assets, many of which are portable. Asset management includes a number of tasks such as renewing software licences. The author describes how an IT solution has delivered effective asset management including alerts to the use of alien software.
Local councils are not always clear as to how they should factor racial equality and good race relations into their strategic plans for physical regeneration. Councils with smaller ethnic minority populations are not convinced that they have to do so. The effect is that the impact of regeneration on different groups is not being measured. This is the conclusion of an investigation by the Council for Racial Equality.
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Many clients of the local Citizens Advice also use Jobcentre Plus and the two organizations have decided that they can do a better job if they work in partnership. The organizations have always worked together, but this agreement represents a new phase in the relationship.Clients include those who are amongst the poorest and most vulnerable members of society.
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Abstracts: September 27th, 2007
This report from the Institute for Public Policy Research North analyses investments and outputs in the North East of England over the last decade. It shows that while public investment has resulted in improvements in the region, stark variations sub-regionally are preventing the North East from improving its regional standing relative to other regions.
Responses to the needs of older people are being affected by cuts in adult care budgets of councils and by the NHS giving them a lower priority. Age Concern, the charity that supports older people, has launched a campaign to reverse this trend and to get the issue on the Government’s agenda in advance of next month’s comprehensive spending review. The charity wants to see renewed efforts by the Government to tackle poverty and social exclusion.
Howard Gardner (Editor)The essays in the book result from a large scale research project, the GoodWorkR Project. The book reflects the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine different professions. It reveals how motivation, culture, and professional norms can intersect to produce work that is personally, socially, and economically beneficial. At the heart of the study is the revelation that the key to good work is responsibility-taking ownership for one’s work and its wider impact.
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Responses to the needs of older people are being affected by cuts in adult care budgets of councils and by the NHS giving them a lower priority. Age Concern, the charity that supports older people, has launched a campaign to reverse this trend and to get the issue on the Government’s agenda in advance of next month’s comprehensive spending review. The charity wants to see renewed efforts by the Government to tackle poverty and social exclusion.
There is a growing skills gap and labour shortage threatening the delivery of sustainable communities and the public sector is finding increasing difficulty in competing with the private sector. A study commissioned by the Academy for Sustainable Communities ‘Mind the Gap’ has identified a lack of skills in the existing workforce and difficulties in recruiting sufficient people to meet future demand.
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This report from the Chartered Management Institute shows that ‘who you know’ and ‘what you know’ is no longer enough to get a job in local government. It reveals that job prospects in the sector are increasingly being influenced by an individual’s commitment to their long-term professional development. It also uncovers major barriers preventing significant numbers from improving their skills.
A new approach has been devised by English Partnerships, the national regeneration agency, to speed up the development of large scale planning applications. In a parallel move the Housing Corporation will adopt new approaches to support investment in developments. The proposals are set out in a report ‘Cascades: improving certainty in the delivery of affordable housing’.
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