With more job cuts in prospect across the public and private sectors, attention is being focused on ‘who to let go’. This new focus is having its effect on managers and staff alike. Monitoring workplace activity has revealed some interesting changes in behaviour, but the statistics come with a health warning.
By Tania Burchardt
Time and money are two key constraints on what people can achieve. The income constraint is widely recognised by policy-makers, but solutions risk freeing lone parents from income poverty only at the price of deepening their existing time poverty. The author highlights the importance of considering parental time, alongside household income, in pursuing a child poverty strategy.
New figures show that nine out of ten schools now meet the minimum the standard of achievement. The number of schools failing the standard has gone down from 440 last year to 270 this year, a reduction of 40 per cent. The minimum standard requires that at least 30 per cent of pupils gain 5A*-C grades at GCSE including maths and English.
Stereotypes of today’s youth as,’ violent’ ‘disrespectful’ or ‘apathetic’ have been challenged by a survey of 16-25 year olds which revealed a very different picture. The survey was carried out by the National Young Volunteers Service, a charity which aims to inspire a new generation of volunteers.
By Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller
At some time everyone in a position of authority, whether in a multi-national corporation or a local volunteer group, wonders what the key to great leadership is. Ken Blanchard, whose books on leadership have sold over 20 million copies, and Mark Miller, who worked his way up from line worker to vice president of one of the largest fast-food chains in the country give an answer to that question.
An independent report has recommended that public libraries and museums should work in partnership with Further Education colleges to pursue its recommendations for lifelong learning. The proposal has been welcomed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and work has started on developing the public library-college model.
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The satisfaction of tenants in social housing is rising steadily and the majority are no longer attracted by home ownership. The latest survey from the Tenant Services Authority Housing, the social housing watchdog, reveals that housing association tenants are more satisfied with the quality of their homes, their neighbourhoods and their landlords than ten years ago.
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This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes how more councils are benefiting from using the Liberata shared services centre located in Barrow-in Furness.
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