Archives for May 6th, 2010

PUBLIC SECTOR UNDER RESOURCED TO COPE WITH JOB CUTS

Headlines, PublicNet: 6 May, 2010

Although none of the political parties have given details of how they would cut public sector budgets they are all agreed that the cuts will be severe. Taking out posts in any organisation always creates work and Hays, a leading global specialist recruiting group, believes that public bodies are not yet geared up to the task.

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COUNCILS WARNED THEY MUST RAISE THEIR GAME IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Headlines, PublicNet: 6 May, 2010

Councils are facing unprecedented challenges with the most severe budget cuts in living memory likely to be announced in the coming months. At the same time there is a need to transform services with different ways of working. Responding to this situation with a smaller but smarter and more flexible workforce will be a major challenge. Against this background the Improvement and Development Agency has warned in its ‘Local Government Workforce Strategy 2010’, that councils are ill prepared for the challenge and they must raise their game.

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PUBLIC SERVICES AND CIVIL SOCIETY WORKING TOGETHER

Book News, PublicNet: 6 May, 2010

By Vicki Savage, Corinne Cordes, Liz Keenaghan-Clark and Carmel O’Sullivan.

The report gives anecdotal and empirical evidence to suggest outcomes are improved when public services and civil society work hand in hand and develop new ways to do just that. The approaches range from community entrepreneurs, asset sharing, new performance measures through to community dividends

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