The public service ethos is alive and well with younger workers in the
public sector feeling particularly strongly that their jobs are useful to
society. The findings are contained in ‘Is there still a public service
ethos?’ by Peter John and Mark Johnson, in ‘British Social Attitudes: the
24th Report’, published today by NatCen. 

Local authorities and central Government need to do more to monitor and
evaluate the impact of children’s centres according to a new report. The
study “How well are they doing: the impact of children’s centres and
extended schools”, is published today by the Office for Standards in
Education, Children’s Services and Skills. 

This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. It looks at the application of a new electronic procurement and tendering system designed to reduce procurement costs and simplify administration.
The “Public Procurement Platform” provides for catalogue procurement and manages the tendering process. It enables a greater number of suppliers to be engaged and streamlines record keeping.