Re-cycling is big business and as attitudes have changed it has become a growing business. Although it makes economic sense it also particularly makes environmental sense. But re-cycling has not been so successful for those on the move. John Williamson suggests a strategy for street re-cycling to address this issue.

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Too much time in front of screens – including TV and computer games – combined with a sedentary lifestyle is taking its toll on our children’s wellbeing and increasing their anxiety, according to a new Public Health England briefing paper.

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As more people access council websites through mobiles a survey shows that visitor satisfaction is falling.

The survey by the Society of IT Management shows that the percentage of visits from mobile devices averaged 27.4% for the first five months of 2013, with January recording the highest numbers to data at 28.8%. It appears that the higher the number of total visits, the higher the percentage from mobile devices -in January severe weather led to high levels of council website visits overall.

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Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman look at what conspires against “a culture of candor” in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness.

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Phil Neal talks about how technology can help authorities to identify and help children at risk of future criminality and better support those already in the youth justice system.

There has been a noticeable shift in the pattern of offending among young people since 2008/09. According the latest figures, re-offending rates are up 3% despite a 37% smaller cohort, suggesting that a hard core of youngsters remain who have become locked in a cycle of criminality.

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ICT professionals must take a lead in pursuing the digital agenda, as well as running their legacy estates. Failure to do this will mean that others will decide the future direction of ICT in their organisation.

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Health and social care executives believe that intgegration is the key to meeting the dementia challenge.

With the number of people diagnosed in the UK with dementia expected to double over the next 40 years and the cost of the disease currently standing at £23billion, dementia is perhaps the most taxing health and social care issue. PA Consulting Group asked senior executives from clinical commissioning groups, NHS England, NHS Shared Business Services, local authorities and the voluntary sector if integration is really the solution and if it is, how it can be made a reality.

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As the tourist season reaches its peak, seaside resorts across England are being urged to open up their beaches to disabled people and benefit from the purple pound worth £80bn a year.

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The Government estimates that making public services digital could save between £1.7 and £1.8 billion per year. With effective document processes optimization it will be possible to process documents more efficiently, ensuring best-in-class citizen services. But many organizations are not ready for digital transformation because leaders lack the skills to make it happen.

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There is a great deal of technical support available for the care sector, but much of it comes in stand alone systems such as rostering and scheduling. In this feature Ollie Watson describes how systems can be integrated with a single core database.

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