People who have used care services or tried to get local authority finance for care are being offered the chance to have their say about the present funding system and the decision on who does and does not get help. The invitation has come from the Commission for Social Care Inspection, which is conducting a review at the request of the Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis. 

A Government planned carbon trading scheme will be undermined unless local councils are given clarity soon about what they will be expected to do. The warning has come from the Local Government Information Unit following the publication of DEFRA’s latest report on the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), due to be launched in 2010. 

This survey by Touchpaper, an international provider of IT Business Management, looked into the challenge of delivering ‘great’ IT services which add strategic value to the organization, as opposed to just ‘good’ IT providing day-to-day maintenance and firefighting. The survey found that 46 per cent of IT directors in the public sector do not believe that their department is delivering ‘great’ IT services.