Three police forces have pulled out of a plan to award an outsourcing contract to G4S to provide support services.The contract would have helped to plug a £73m funding gap and could have affected 1,100 staff.
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Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester explore the competencies – the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising – that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these competencies are innate and within reach of all of us – given the right setting, plenty of practice and some gentle guidance. But they are seldom seen because they are routinely undervalued in today’s culture. That must change, the authors insist, and this book is intended to begin that change.
The troubled families initiative, where councils take an holistic approach to the needs of families, has the potential to deliver billions of pounds in savings.
It is estimated that nationally, the 120,000 troubled families cost the taxpayer £9 billion per year, £8 billion of which is spent purely reacting to their problems and the problems they cause, such as truancy, youth crime and anti-social behaviour.
Latest calculations by councils show the potential for savings. Barnet Council spends almost £100,000 on average every year on responding to each of its troubled families, compared with costs that can be as little as £10,000 per family for a successful intervention. Solihull Council spends 18% of its overall budget on just 3% of its families before it started working on the troubled families.
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This hands–on practical guide by ines Merqel and Bill Greeves is about designing and implementing strategies and policies. It offers a ready–to–use reference to help readers move smoothly through the development and deployment of effective new media strategies and policies within their own organizations.
A group of social scientists has taken advantage of the facilities offered by the internet to develop software which enables other researchers to easily create interactive internet-based intervention programmes to support behavioural change.
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The introduction of so-called ‘metro mayors’ across the North of England would help to close the north-south economic divide, according to a business lobby group.
London and its surrounding areas account for more than one third of the UK’s economic activity, yet the combined output of the major Northern cities provides just a fifth, while there are also major disparities in the levels of regeneration and research spend per person between the two areas.
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A new health and work assessment and advisory service is to be set up to provide advice to employees, employers and GPs in order to help people back to work after sickness absence and prevent them falling out of employment.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has challenged the NHS to go paperless by 2018 to save billions, improve services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population. Patients should have compatible digital records so their health information can follow them around the health and social care system.
Efforts to reform public services will be undermined unless public sector employees recognise that their salaries should also reflect their performance rather than simply tracking the cost of living.
This is the view of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development after a survey of employee attitudes. The survey revealed that just one in three public sector workers think their salary should reflect their individual performance, compared to more than half of private sector workers. In the private sector, 54% believe that their salary should reflect their own performance, 36% inflation and cost of living and 32% their experience. In the public sector, 55 % of workers feel their pay should reflect inflation and cost of living, 36% individual performance 33% their experience.
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More than 3.5 million UK households have been given the chance to club together and use their joint purchasing power to negotiate the best deals with their energy suppliers over the last six months. Millions more expected to be given the same opportunity by their local council over the coming year.
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