TRANSATLANTIC LINK DEBATES WAYS TO TACKLE BULLYING

Young people from Britain will join contemporaries from Ireland and the United States in a trans-Atlantic link up today designed to give them a say on how to tackle bullying in schools and to take steps towards developing training material that can be used by schools. Anti-bullying charity beatbullying is organising the event in association with the Sullivan University System in America and the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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REVIEW LOOKS TO LGA’S NEXT TEN YEARS

Leading figures from the public sector will be part of an independent commission being launched by the Local Government Association to look into how the LGA and its related bodies should go forward to ensure it provides the strongest leadership, support and voice for councils.

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Moving to a customer focus and taking a total view of customer needs is a vision shared by most public bodies. Turning this vision into a reality is difficult because it requires cultural as well as structural change and these are formidable barriers. This feature describes how Salford City Council put its change programme into effect to deliver a better service.