The Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review has put pressure on local authorities to reduce subsidies for leisure whilst also maintaining high quality services and maximising income opportunities. But is capital available to transform leisure provision and if so, can it be done without adding costs to the service? Sarah Watts explains.
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Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath and Mary Davies Holt look at the reasons why women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations—a number that hasn’t changed in over 30 years. They argue that there is a need to break rules in order to change the patterns of thinking that block women’s paths to power.
The evaluation of pilot projects showed that the economic downturn is having an adverse effect on child poverty and that intervention to alleviate the impact of poverty is too narrowly focused.
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We stand on the doorway of the Relationship Age, says Sabina Spencer. With rapid connections now possible through the internet and digital technology, we feel the links between us more strongly than ever before.
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Community budgets pilots are to be extended in April 2012. Councils have been invited to bid for community budget funding to support families with complex needs.
The first pilot community budgets schemes were launched in April 2011 and in June 2011 plans to extend the schemes were announced. There are further plans to extend community budgets beyond families with complex needs.
The National School for Government, the Sandhurst of the Civil Service, will close its doors in March 2012 and private companies will be invited to bid for contracts to provide non-technical training.
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Woodward Lewis and Blaenau Gwent Domestic Abuse Services are changing the deep-rooted culture of acceptance of domestic abuse by unlocking the community’s existing wisdoms.This article explains how the challenge is approached and the results achieved.
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William Tate has put together a practical guide that allows the development of leaders to be considered from an organisational rather than an individual perspective.
The Toolkit is based on the author’s extensive consultancy work on leadership issues. It uses a Systems Thinking approach and a series of self-assessment questionnaires to guide through the entire improvement process.