Almost 200 million pounds is being made available for three Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder projects in the north of England. The funding has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister who said it ...

Average council tax rises across the country will be the lowest ever, according to figures from the Government. The average band D council tax increase will be three per cent and, given that the ...

This document from the Department for Health and Communities and Local Government sets out a framework for commissioning services. It focuses on partnership between everyone that can contribute to ...

This paper from the Local Government Association and the Improvement and Development Agency sets out initial views about the nature and purpose of a strategy for improving local government. It ...

This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. It features an interview with the Chief Executive of Woking Borough Council who ...

The e-tendering pilot scheme launched by the Office for Government Commerce in July 2001 has been wound up. The pilot, involving ten government departments, was a web-based system for purchasing goods ...

England’s 15,000th Higher Level Teaching Assistant has started work this week. Nazish Mohammed has joined the staff at Heald Place School in Manchester to reach the milestone. The assistants are ...

Reward specialists and HR professionals have challenged the received wisdom about performance related pay with an alternative view that could significantly increase staff motivation with a better ...

Applying for planning permission is a lengthy process which creates mountains of paper. Transforming the paper based process to an electronic form is fraught with difficulty because of the need to ...

Pensioners in some of England’s poorest rural areas will be given extra encouragement to take up benefits and allowances through a new one and a quarter million pound fund launched by the Rural ...

have been shown in recent surveys to feel undervalued and overworked. ‘Making a Difference: Reducing General Practitioner (GP) Paperwork’ delivers 36 practical measures that will reduce the amount of ...

Important issues of governance for the voluntary sector will be in the spotlight today when the National Council for Voluntary Organisations stages its eighth annual conference for trustees of ...