The Audit Commission is encouraging councils to make better use of information as a way to improve services through better decision making. This is part of a public service wide move to sharpen up information management. The paper from the Commission follows a Cabinet Office publication last year on ‘The Power of Information’. The National Archives and the National Audit Office will shortly publish ‘Why Information Matters’ which will look at the importance of improving information management from a central government perspective.

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Children born today will be 17 in 2025 and the Department for Children, Schools and Families wants to build a scenario of the likely big issues and questions that will face them. Parents, teachers, employers and children are invited to take part in the research programme Beyond Current Horizons by voting online about the educational challenges of the future.

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Almost half of organisations in the UK no longer award employees an across the board annual pay rise or cost of living adjustment, according to this year’s Annual Reward Management survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Manufacturing, production and private sector service firms are the least likely to provide such a pay rise. But the decline in the yearly traditional pay rise seems to be spreading throughout employment sectors.

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