Promoting volunteering is on the agenda of the main political parties and its benefits are broadly recognised. Young Enterprise has a history of training and supporting volunteers effectively and its ...

Newcastle City Council is working with a regional charity to set up what is thought to be the country’s first youth council independent of the local authority. The new body, created with the support ...

Evaluating current cleaning processes should already be part and parcel of a mindset that seeks to consistently meet high standards. However, the fact that the new standard has been in place for just ...

Local authority chief executives and other senior managers have underlined in a new report the link between their ability to recruit and retain good staff and the condition of the local economies in ...

Front-line staff in the National Health Service are expected to benefit from the new Health and Social Care Information Centre, which has come into being this month. The Centre has been set up to ...

The book incorporates a number of action strategies, such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice, into a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others.

Councils, and all public sector workers faced with the challenge of market-testing their services, will welcome recognition from the Government that the quality and training of staff represents an ...

This report from Communities and Local Government investigates how councils are using e-government to respond to the needs of the socially excluded and in doing so contribute to the development of a ...

A local government think-tank says that the government and water companies are waking up to some hard truths about water supply and treatment. The Local Government Information Unit says councils and ...

The New Local Government Network has called on the government to avoid a dangerous decline in public trust in councils by including measures in its plans for local government audit that will boost ...

Local authorities in four areas will benefit from 310 million pounds in Private Finance Initiative Credits to help divert more than a million tonnes of waste away from landfill. Defra says the ...

Newly revised to reflect the latest research, yet still highly practical in its focus, this is a book designed to confound a common misconception and demonstrate that target setting is possible within ...