Archives for May 19th, 2010

COHESIVE COALITIONS?

Features, PublicNet: 19 May, 2010

By Stephen Welch.

The new coalition government has attracted many different analogies of what the partnership is like. And there have been lots of opinion pieces as to whether it will wither or prosper. The author looks at the likely success of the partnership in the light of research and the experience of helping organisations collaborate.

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COUNCIL LEADERS WANT ‘RADICAL DEVOLUTION OF POWER’ IN BIG SOCIETY

Headlines, PublicNet: 19 May, 2010

The local Government Association has welcomed the Government’s Big Society programme and said councillors were already practising the kind of politics that moved them closer to the people they served. The LGA chairman, Dame Margaret Eaton, was speaking after David Cameron said he wanted his vision of a big society of community work and social enterprise to be one of his Government’s legacies.

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WALES LOOKS AT WAYS TO GET MORE FUNDING TO FRONT-LINE EDUCATION

Headlines, PublicNet: 19 May, 2010

The prospect of more regional consortia to provide educational support services is one of the ideas in a major report looking at ways to get more money to front line education in Wales. The report from the Welsh Assembly Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, identifies opportunities to move resources from administration to the delivery of services.

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PARTNERSHIPS THE ANSWER TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE

Abstracts, PublicNet: 19 May, 2010

This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. It looks at meeting the challenge of national environmental targets in a tough financial climate.

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