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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