The Cabinet Office update on Open Public Services sets out a renewed vision for delivering the highest quality public services. But it ignores the changes likely to shape public services of the future.
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The troubled families programme breaks the mould of traditional service delivery and opens the way for local development of radically different business models. It is the testbed for public service re-design.
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Bob Frisch examines how great leaders structure and manage the teams around them. At the top of every organization chart lies a myth—that a Senior Management Team makes an organisation’s critical decisions. The reality is that critical decisions are typically made by the boss and a small group of confidants—a “team with no name”—outside of formal processes.
Meanwhile, other members of the management team wonder why they weren’t in the room or even consulted ahead of time. The dysfunction that results from this gap between myth and reality has led to years of unproductive team building exercises. The problems, Frisch shows, are ones of process and structure, not psychology.
The latest employment projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility show that the public sector workforce is on course to fall to a record low.
The number of people employed in central and local government will have fallen by around 700,000 during the course of the current Parliament (2010-2015) and by 880,000 by the time the Chancellor hopes to have closed the structural fiscal deficit in 2017. This will wipe out the net rise in public sector employment under the Labour government between 1999 and 2009 and take the public sector workforce to a record low.
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Cloudstore, the online app store providing cheaper ICT services for the public sector has gone live.
CloudStore provides a cheaper, quicker and more transparent way to procure cloud-based ICT services, including email, word processing, system hosting, enterprise resource planning, electronic records management, customer relationship management or office productivity applications.
Nicolai Andler has put together this complete compendium of tools and techniques for working smarter with people. It makes a valuable contribution to the art of leadership and change management.
The most valuable asset are the people of the organisation. That’s why the softer aspects of people management and related skills get more and more attention. Using the same approach as Nicolai Andler’s successful ‘Tools for Project Management, Workshops and Consulting’, this standard work gives you a reference or cookbook-style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness.
Public sector workers are being offered increased on the job protection with the launch of a new personal tracking device designed to safeguard those who work alone or in vulnerable professions such as maintenance workers, social workers, nurses and carers.
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Teenagers who turn their backs on a healthy lifestyle and turn to drink, cigarettes and junk food are significantly unhappier than their healthier peers. They run a high risk of chronic disease in later life because of their low well-being and poor health-related behaviours.
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The Audit Commission is to cut audit fees for the country’s 9,800 smaller local public bodies, mainly parish and town councils.
The Audit Commission has set up five-year audit contracts to start in 2012/13. The savings from the procurement mean almost 4,500, around half of England’s small local public bodies, will not have to pay any audit fees at all. Those small bodies with annual income/expenditure of up to £10,000 will now fall into the ‘nil fee’ band. Currently this applies to just over 1,000 bodies with income/expenditure up to only £1,000. The savings also mean the fees for other small bodies will be cut by 30 per cent.
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