Local Government leaders are urging the Government to put councils at the heart of constitutional reform. Reacting to the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill, the Local Government Association called on ministers to use it to devolve decision making.

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Public sector leaders are to be offered the chance to take a strategic view of property so they can get maximum value from what is seen as an expensive, but often ignored, asset. The National School of Government and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors are to run a series of seminars to back up the ‘Public Sector Property Asset Management Guidance’, which was published recently.

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The importance of human capital for growth and social inclusion is set out in this paper from theTreasury. It was written jointly with the Finance Ministries of Sweden and Germany.

The paper focuses on the issue of human capital for promoting employability and social cohesion. The knowledge-based economy favours workers with higher skills which need to be updated through the lifecycle. Human capital formation is therefore crucial to promote opportunity and employability of workers, and to increase the innovative capacity of companies and economies.

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