Archives for November 23rd, 2007

CIVIL SERVICE CHANGE MANAGERS SHOULD LOOK TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Headlines, PublicNet: 23 November, 2007

The Civil Service change management programme, known as ‘Capability Reviews’ of departments is slowly delivering results, but there is a risk of the momentum fading with people getting back to doing the day job. A report from the National School for Government sets out an agenda for preventing a tail-off of the change programme which includes looking at the way change has been managed in local government.

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE COMPANIES PREFERRED TO RUN PUBLIC SERVICES

Headlines, PublicNet: 23 November, 2007

As the Government appears to be drawing back from a greater involvement of the private sector in providing public services, with the abandonment of plans for some private treatment centres, a YouGov poll has revealed that the public really prefer local services to be run by social enterprise companies.

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IDENTIFYING THE DEMONS

Features, PublicNet: 23 November, 2007

By Christine Whatford

Public concern and moral indignation about juvenile crime and disorderly behaviour has led to the demonization of some children. The author shows that this is a handy way of shifting blame for things we see around us that we don’t like, when the root of demonization is social unrest caused by poverty. She explores the way that education is closing the depravation social gap.

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