This report from the Society of IT Management describes ICT as having poor ‘green’ credentials. It currently accounts for some 2% of global CO2 emissions, which is the same amount as that of the ...

The reticence within the coalition government to base public service reform on the adoption of the Total Place approach has been overcome and modest plans to extend Community Budgets have been ...

Government plans to transform public services against the backdrop of £81bn spending cuts over the next four years will fail unless policy makers recognise the importance of supporting a step-change ...

Written by leading academics in the field of local governance, finance, systems thinking and politics, this topical book examines and debates the challenges posed, on a local, European and global ...

The National Audit Office has criticised the Fire Service College for a glaring gap in its financial information system. The College is required to recover all its costs from fire authorities and ...

Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population published in 2008 recognised the beneficial impact that work can have on an individual’s state of health and that work is ...

The government launched its first ever anti-littering strategy for England in April. Patience Atkinson-Gregory of litter bin manufacturers Amberol (www.amberol.co.uk) explains how the new strategy ...

Dorset County Council has the most satisfied customers in the country, according to a new corporate assessment report published today by the Audit Commission. It finds that local people’s overall ...

A Select Parliamentary Committee has challenged the effectiveness of the Troubled Families programme and criticised the Communities Department for its handling of the evaluation report. The programme, ...

Council websites now attract almost as many visitors as the site run by the supermarket chain Tesco. Research from the Central Office of Information says the number of ‘hits’ on local authority web ...

Publication of ‘Public Bodies 1999’ – a comprehensive listing of non-departmental public bodies – has highlighted how few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are represented on such ...

More reductions are being made in the amount of information that NHS Trusts have to collect. The decision follows a data streamlining exercise conducted with Monitor, the Foundation Hospitals ...