An online knowledge bank about the Compact, the agreement setting out how the Government and the voluntary sector should work together, is now live. The online library has been produced by the Commission for the Compact and holds a range of research papers and documents.
Trading Standards staff in Britain’s second city have carried out the most comprehensive estate agent and Home Information Pack enforcement exercise so far. Working with the Property Codes Compliance Board, officers in Birmingham found that almost a third of HIPs failed to meet the regulations.
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This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. John Suffolk the Cabinet Office’s CIO explains in the interview how delivering better public services at lower cost by the use of information technology is going to be crucial to the way public services develop.