The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit has developed three new affordability indicators to show the ability to access home ownership and the affordability of maintaining a mortgage or renting in the private sector.
This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. John Suffolk the Cabinet Office’s CIO explains in the interview how delivering better public services at lower cost by the use of information technology is going to be crucial to the way public services develop.
This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes studies which demonstrate the huge impact of flexible working on staff productivity and reducing cost in the public sector.
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This guidance about Local Involvement Networks describes the important role they play in helping to improve health and social care services. They are a key way of listening to the community and involving them in important decisions about the commissioning and running of services.
The Making Good Progress pilot was set up to test new ways to increase rates of pupil progress. It started in September 2007 and ran to July 2009 and involved pupils in Key Stage 2 and 3 in over 450 schools in 10 Local Authorities.
Councils have been urged to sign community contracts with local residents as a way to drive up the standard of local services. Contracts are also known as neighbourhood charters and they are voluntary written agreements between residents and local services setting out clear standards of service and priorities for action as well as the role local people can play in helping the services achieve the standards.
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This document describes how good communication is used to support the development of high-performing organizations. There is compelling evidence that communication makes a vital contribution to organisations in the public services as well as in businesses.
Contributors from the public and private sectors offer opinions on how best to manage the cuts.
Views include looking at the role of Quangos and Regional Development Agencies to see what policy areas could go to consortia of local authorities.
The paper illustrates the need for more innovation in public service and for a greater focus on decentralization. The authors, from the National School for Government, have drawn their conclusions from the Total Place initiatives. Policy development on public service reform has shifted towards a more decentralised, less command-and-control based approach, but a whole generation of Whitehall staff has grown up in that world, having little direct knowledge of the front line and no capacity to see things from a local perspective.
Local Involvement Networks (LINks) exist in every local authority area to give people more influence over how their local health and social care services are planned and delivered. This guide explains how LINks operate and how volunteers can join them.
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