A collective funding agreement has been reached which will secure the future of social worker posts in Young Offender Institutes for another year. The agreement, which spreads the cost across local authorities, lifts the immediate threat to the posts which would have come to an end in April when interim central funding was due to end.

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Companies can now sell the time of under used staff through a new online system. StaffShare has been designed to match under-utilised corporate skills with charities and voluntary organisations which need the skills but may not have the resources or requirement to use them permanently.

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This document from Communities and Local Government argues that although it is accepted that ‘place matters’ too few government-owned datasets incorporating location can be analysed with reliability from across local and central government bodies. There is too much duplication, too little reuse and too few linkages across datasets which are required to support policy and management.

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