The pay bill is a significant part of public sector budgets and a halt in annual rises would reduce pressure to cut jobs. The latest Labour Market Outlook survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and KPMG shows that public sector pay is starting to freeze.

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Now is the time to change public service leadership. New thinking should be promoted and ways found to build up capacity in a changed culture. This is the message from a new report from the National School for Government ‘Whole Systems Go’.

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This paper from the Department for Children, Schools and Families describes how the Department proposes to work more closely with the third sector and it sets out the main focus of the shared goals and work over the coming months and years within the framework of Every Child Matters.

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