The pressure on town councils to move forward efficiently is increasing, with resources and budgets being stretched across the board. At the same time, the responsibilities of town councils and the services being provided are increasing, putting extra time pressures on managers as Jackie MacArthur, Town Centre & Marketing Manager from Congleton Town Council explains.
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Despite new opportunities for employer-supported volunteering, neither organisations nor the voluntary sector are effectively tackling the barriers preventing greater co-operation.
The Government is committed to introducing three days volunteering leave requiring large businesses and public bodies to offer employees three days’ paid leave. While this offers a game changing opportunity it has also revealed a need to get the systems and processes in place to make the most of it.
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The Department for Communities and Local Government has confirmed that communities and parishes will have a role in local authorities’ devolution deals.
James Wharton, DCLG minister, said: “Local parish and town councils must be proactive, be engaged, and seize the opportunity of devolution. They should find the opportunities that exist and drive them forward to the interest of the communities that they represent. That is what devolution is about – it’s a bottom up process. Devolution won’t be done to anyone.
Cyber crime has progressed as the Internet and online payment systems developed. Ransomeware is the name given to the malware which encrypts files so that a ransome can be demanded to release the decryption key. Kieran Laffan explains how the risk can be countered.
District councils are the sleeping giants of public health and it is time to wake them. This is main finding from an editorially independent report commissioned by the District Councils’ Network.
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The introduction of the new National Living Wage in April 2016 will result in a higher level of job cuts in the public sector compared to other areas of employment. This is a key finding from a new survey published by the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, and the Resolution Foundation.
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In a move towards greater transparency a change in law requires earlier release of public records. In this article Phil Greenwood reveals that many public bodies are unprepared for earlier release and some are simply unaware of the change. He explains that help is available.
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ResPublica, the indpendant thinktank, warns that the NHS faces a £3 billion bill as residential care homes shut their doors forcing hospitals to care for the elderly.
In The Care Collapse: The imminent crisis in residential care and its impact on the NHS, ResPublica says within 5 years residential care homes could lose a staggering 37, 000 beds meaning the NHS would have to find extra billions to care for those patients who are no longer in care and can’t go elsewhere.
TOP 3 TRENDS IN TODAY’S THREAT LANDSCAPE
In this article Benny Czarny looks at trends in malware attacks and suggests ways in which these new developments can be countered.
Every day there seems to be a new malware threat that we hear about, from remotely controlling cars and medical equipment, to attacks on well-known security vendors such as Kaspersky Lab and Bitdefender. Each threat seems to be bigger and more dangerous than the last. Among this never ending stream of publicised cyber threats and attacks, here are three trends to keep an eye on:
Today, a field service operation is characterised by the running of multiple technologies, from GPS and vehicle-tracking systems to telematics, fleet management and workforce management solutions.
Each of these technologies generates vast amounts of data and businesses are increasingly realising the importance of reviewing and monitoring their performance using the data they collect. However, being able to organise and analyse data in an effective, simple and reliable way is a major challenge and without the means of turning it in to something actionable, many businesses just don’t take advantage of it. Business analytics and reporting tools have come to the fore as a solution able to tackle this and empower field service organisation’s with the information they care about to make faster, better informed decisions.
Fostering business intelligence through business analytics and reporting tools
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