By Yasmin Hussein Reproduced by permission of the Centre for Management and Policy Studies. Pathways, the leadership development programme for people with ethnic minority backgrounds, seeks to identify people with the potential to reach the Senior Civil Service. Jasmin Hessein describes how the programme has helped in the development of her career which has taken her to Head of Equality at the Welsh Assembly.

The independent think-tank the New Local Government Network will tonight stage the first of three fringe events at the political party conferences looking at e-government and ways of improving how local government is perceived. The events have been arranged in association with Vertex under the title, “Can e-Government Really Transform Public Services in Local Government?”Tonight’s session at the Liberal-Democrat conference will be chaired by NLGN’s head of research, Warren Hatter. Speakers will include the Lib-Dem spokesman on the Cabinet and IT, Richard Allan, Councillor David Tutt, the deputy leader of Eastbourne Council and Dr Andrew Larner from the Improvement and Development Agency.

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