The Health Secretary has promised that more than a hundred leading doctors, nurses and managers are to help draw up a national plan for the NHS.It follows the announcement of extra money for the ...

The guide from Bristol City Council has been designed to help other local authorities develop e-participation tools that can encourage much wider community engagement. The experience of the corporate ...

Local Education Authorities will have to meet new standards in special school buildings and facilities for special educational provision in mainstream schools. They have been set out in new draft ...

Dementia sufferers and kidney dialysis patients are among the older people who have experienced IT for the first time through a partnership project between Age Concern and Microsoft.Hundreds more ...

The Government has begun seeking people’s views on a new charter which would set out what people can expect from public bodies handling personal information and what safeguards should be in place for ...

Finance heads working in Scotland’s public sector meet tomorrow to discuss radically changing times for their services.The annual CIPFA Scottish Conference coincides with the announcement of a review ...

This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association. http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pmpa/index.cfm Local ...

This report from the Local Government Association calls on the Government to adopt proposals to combat climate change and fight fuel poverty. It advocates a stronger role for local councils and local ...

A report released today questions whether people and organisations are really participating in decision making about their communities. The new booklet, “Localism and local governance”, has been ...

Research commissioned by BIS showed that regular one-to-one sessions with a business adviser are a key component of support to enter self-employment. There should be a single point of contact to build ...

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Smith, launches the next phase of modernisation of the public procurement system at a conference in London today (Tuesday, April 3).A year on from the ...

Councils are being urged to create ‘naked streets’ with fewer signs, traffic lights and what campaigners call clutter. The call has come from the charity Living Streets, a national organisation ...