Accidents happen and tripping and slipping are among the most common causes. In this article Glenn MacLaughlan describes how public sector employers can take simple and uncomplicated action to address the issue and reduce the risk of accidents.

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Digital programmes are having an impact from school age to old age, but progress on adopting technology is slow and patchy.

This report from the Society of IT Management describes the impact digital projects are having on citizens and highlights uneven progress.

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The National Audit Office wants the Regional Growth Fund to be spent more quickly to create jobs. It also wants a tighter grip on spending.

The government established the Regional Growth Fund in 2010 to encourage private-sector enterprise by providing support for projects with the significant potential for economic growth and to support those areas and communities that currently depend on the public sector. The Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills are responsible for the Fund.

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Ministers have urged local councils to release surplus land for development. Whitehall departments are spearheading the sell off with 430 sites sold to date.

Ministers claim that the Whitehall sell off of brown field sites will allow 68,000 homes to be built. This is equivalent to a town the size of Blackpool. Redundant hospitals and military sites feature prominently among the sites sold off.

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Since 1839 when George Bradshaw first published his Railway Timetables, travellers have had to put travel information together to build a complete picture of their journey. In this article William Flanagan explains how change is now on the way and he describes an early success in integrating travel information.

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Literature on leadership often fails to include clear connection between theory and practice. In this book Robert H Palestini details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and how their behavior was informed by leadership theory.

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Healthy workplaces rely on policies to reduce stress, improve wellbeing and foster organizational effectiveness. The contributions to this book include a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together, to reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives. ??

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Councils across the UK are being urged to join one of the biggest digital inclusion campaigns of the year to help local people get online.

Spring Online is an award-winning initiative that makes it possible for thousands of people, often older people, to try out using computers and tablets and the internet, many for the first time.

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Central government employment will fall by 1.1 million (19%) by 2018–19 compared with 2010– 11 according to forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. If delivered, these cuts, would be the largest recorded over the past fifty years: almost three times larger than the reductions in the early 1990s.

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To be successful in any organization it is important for individual values to match the culture. In this article Janice Haddon explains how to assess the culture match and to go on to develop characteristics that will bring success.

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