Mark Raeburn’s viewpoint on children and family services from Capita One. One of the real highlights of my job is visiting local authorities and finding out how the successful early help initiatives ...

This report of the working group who examined worklessness is published by Communities and Local Government. The term worklessness describes the condition where a large number of people are excluded ...

Ten ideas to benefit communities submitted by local councils have received government backing. Communities and Local Government chose the ‘Top Ten’ ideas, which will receive Government support. They ...

The VOICE toolkit has gone live following two years of developing the e-democracy project. This online facility brings together neighbourhoods, community groups, parish and town councils, and elected ...

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 ...

The behaviour of pupils in schools is not improving. The traditional response to bad behaviour is exclusion, but the number of exclusions remains constant each year and many pupils are excluded more ...

New measures are being brought in by the Cabinet Office to ensure that civil servants from under-represented or disadvantaged groups can succeed in the civil service. An updated version of the ...

Councils and other public bodies need to start sharing services, people and other assets if they hope to protect front line services during the post-election cuts, according to the Chartered Institute ...

Public Administration. Vol 81. Issue 1. Published by Blackwell. ISSN: 0033-3298.

Councils should look more urgently at developing cost-saving self-service models of delivery as they search for ways to cut expenditure. This is a key finding from the Society of IT Management in its ...

Chris Wormald, Director General of Local Government and Regeneration at DCLG sets out his views on transformation and efficiency in the interview on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public ...