Most councils are coping with the cuts councils but they will face difficult decisions about how to meet their funding shortfall in the next few years. This is the conclusion of the Audit Commission report Tough Times.
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The report demonstrates that older people are already a fundamental part of the government’s Big Society vision and considers how their level of engagement can be maintained and increased. The report was produced by Res Publica in conjunction with Independent Age.
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The Department for Transport has set plans for taking forward the alternative transport initiative.
Using alternatives to travel can make good sense for all organisations. They can help to reduce congestion and increase productivity, contributing to economic growth, and can help reduce business travel, saving businesses money. They can help to reduce stress and absenteeism and have the potential to provide a boost to local economies and rural areas. Increased uptake of alternatives to travel can also help reduce carbon by reducing the need for business-related travel.
Job Centre Plus Advisers were successfully integrated into the children’s centres and the pilots achieved their main objective.
The flexibility of the Adviser’s role has been key to its success with customers and pilot staff alike. Some advisers did, however, find it difficult to manage the tension of balancing work-focused activities with less structured, ad-hoc engagement and outreach activities.
Around 10,000 young people leave care every year and they are more vulnerable and more dependent on public services than other young people. This report from Consumer Focus calls for a different response from service providers.
Twenty year olds are three times more likely to reach 100 than people of their grandparent’s age, and roughly twice as likely to reach 100 than people of their parent’s generation.
The evaluation of pilot projects showed that the economic downturn is having an adverse effect on child poverty and that intervention to alleviate the impact of poverty is too narrowly focused.
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Participatory Budgeting complements devolution from localism, community budgets and the Big Society. These are all new developments since it came on the scene in 2006. This report describes how it has evolved in a rapidly changing local government landscape.
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The Work Programme is a new payment-for-results welfare-to-work scheme that was launched in June 2011. This document from the department for Work and Pensions describes how the Programme was designed to overcome the weaknesses of previous initiatives for getting people back to work.
This framework for supporting personal assistants working in adult social care is part of the process to make it easier for people with disabilities to employ Personal Assistants.
The provision of personal budgets for all eligible people will mean personal assistants, directly employed by people who use care and support services, working in new, creative and person-centred ways to play an increasingly important role in providing tailored support to meet individual needs. This document provides a framework for supporting the development of the PA workforce and their employers over the next five years and beyond.
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