The reticence within the coalition government to base public service reform on the adoption of the Total Place approach has been overcome and modest plans to extend Community Budgets have been replaced with additional pilots in 14 areas.
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Youth unemployment has become a major issue as the number of those not in education, training or employment (NEETS) continues to grow. Glen Williams explains the success of an approach which focuses on prevention rather than cure. He explains how by predicting those who may become NEETS and providing crucial support in earlier years their futures can be changed.
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Keeping abreast of the latest technological advancements in the field of education is a time-consuming task. Attending BETT 2012 is the single most effective way to research, source and experience firsthand the products and services available, as well as learn from the educations industry’s most illustrious authorities.
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Plans to give councils more financial freedom will provide incentives to promote local growth over the long term and reduce dependency on central government. Councils will be able to retain a proportion of business rates which currently are all paid to the Treasury and re-distributed as grants.
The radical reform of the police service, which involves the creation of Police and Crime Commissioners, will be speeded up by the axing of the National Policing Improvement Agency and the creation of a new top body. ‘The reform programme is aimed at securing the most radical change for more than 50 years.
Plans to radically transform the lives of the country’s most troubled families move community budgets into the mainstream. They mark a move away from traditional thinking with silo approaches to service delivery and put multi-agency working to the forefront.
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Ofsted inspectors found that the teaching of ICT in many schools is inadequate. The problem is particularly acute in secondary schools.
The latest Ofsted report has found that achievement in information, communication and technology (ICT) was inadequate in almost a fifth of the secondary schools visited. Inspectors found that how well pupils did in secondary schools was adversely affected by the lack of challenge for more able students and poor coverage of key aspects of the ICT curriculum.
Mary Portas has set out a vision for town centres and called for joint action to put the heart back into the centre of high streets.
The Review makes ambitious recommendations on what can be done by government, councils and business to help high streets deliver something new. The focus is on re-imagining the high streets as exciting social hubs for shopping, learning socialising and having fun.
The Department for Transport has set plans for taking forward the alternative transport initiative.
Using alternatives to travel can make good sense for all organisations. They can help to reduce congestion and increase productivity, contributing to economic growth, and can help reduce business travel, saving businesses money. They can help to reduce stress and absenteeism and have the potential to provide a boost to local economies and rural areas. Increased uptake of alternatives to travel can also help reduce carbon by reducing the need for business-related travel.
In Visual Teams, David Sibbet uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today’s work environment.
As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group’s mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts.
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