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Adrian Brown (Institute for Government)

On 21st October, local and national regulators from across the public sector will come together at their third annual conference. This group is a forum for those attendin...

473 days ago

Benefits Processing Solution for Government

Local authorities are increasingly assessed and judged...Singularity has developed a Benefits product for local government to deliver proven perfor...ve customer access and satisfaction. Over 100 UK local authorities use Singularity to aut...

544 days ago

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Tell Us Once Team

...eaved. Without TUO, notifying government requires people to navigate t...eceived praise from the cross-government Heads of Digital Engagement G...-to-face interview offered by local authority partners is particularly...a further seven contacts with government, and customer satisfaction is...

181 days ago

Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011

...ging Relationship between the centre and the local Tue 14:00 Next...Wed 11:10 Continuous Improvement Across Government – proof it works...- Using geographic business intelligence in government Wed 13:30 Succe...

173 days ago

Top-level pages

Upcoming Civil Service World Events

...s that explore some of the challenges facing government and offer a platform for...network transformation The new landscape of government communications Tacking social and financial exclusion Delivering local services New ways to work with ex...

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Sponsored feature: building the future

...rovide an opportunity for the government to work with commercial bodie...r a smaller project such as a local school or healthcare building,&rdq...rmation as possible about the government’s procurement prioritie...t."   Global expertise, local passionTalking of the future, Davi...

6 days ago

Blog posts

Follow the money

...uo; from an ongoing review of local government finance. At a later discussion on the future of localism, employment relations minister...to take a meaningful role in local planning. That support is likely t...e, and with central and local government both feeling the pinch, that...

138 days ago

Bickering delays Open Public Services White Paper ... again

...til after last Friday’s local elections. It’s likely...following his drubbing in the local elections. It would appear that t...essages were clear cut... the government is committed to transforming...d minutes also noted that the government will heavily push for mutuali...

274 days ago

News

Betts: ‘Planning not a barrier’

Leading figures in local government argued that there’s no evidence of the ec...ed for reform of the planning system at the Local Government Summit last week.Speakin...sher Dods, the chair of the communities and local government committee Clive Betts said: ...

5 days ago

NAO says quango reforms will cost twice government estimate

The cost of government’s “bonfire of the quangos” will be nearly...and director of the NAO’s cross-government work, told...are realised, the report says. The government claimed that the policy would...the Department for Communities and Local Government – has set out how to...

11 days ago

Analysis_opinion

The new Cabinet Manual is a solid step forward, says Professor Robert Hazell – in fact, it’s an even more solid step than its sponsors realise

...rn in the informal, ‘sofa government’ style adopted by...codification of the business of government, and draws on 14 codes and ot...ith the devolved assemblies and local government; relations with the EU and in...scope to make decisions if the government cannot clearly command confid...

88 days ago

Opinion: Council tax reforms

The government should think again on plans to localise council tax administration...dwindle. The communities and local government select committee has rec...problem with the delay in the government producing its proposals is th...enefits to be administered by local councils, but proposes that housin...

102 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Geoffrey Spence

...forward at contracts that the government is going to let”, covering...r partly privately funded. “Government still has a role, of course,...lor is planning to “raid” local authority pension pots to secure i...l is, a significant number of local authority pension funds,” Spence...

5 days ago

Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood

...y it is right and proper that government look at all the issues that i...Kerslake built his career in local government before joining the civi...re a test of how well central government can understand the issues at local level and respond collectively to...

6 days ago

Features

Frontline: A workforce development manager explains the impact of policy on working life

...pment manager says cuts have hit local authority support for vulnera...hildren’s services in an urban local authority in the South-East....otecting vulnerable children.The government has also reduced the statutor...and talents.Many of the current government decisions around children and...

27 days ago

Tackling net losses

...ley warns, plans to move more government services online will open up...erts and representatives from local government, and is supported by th...like health, welfare, tax and local government. Because of the way their sys...cies and its non-departmental government bodies. The contract operates...

60 days ago

Round_tables

Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets

...ment in its new contracts.The Government Procurement Service, which is...vil servants procuring across government, many of whom lack the time,...epartment for Communities and Local Government responded that with sen...epartment for Communities and Local GovernmentRubi Kaur, senior techno...

27 days ago

Unlocking services and locking data

...raditional delivery agents of government. James Johns, director of str...If you’re not familiar with government information-assurance practic...s are brought up to date with government policy, but agreed that new g...process, if every department, local authority and health body contract...

133 days ago

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Special report: SCS recruitment

...began in the 1990s, when the government opened up senior jobs to exte...ome SCS recruits from outside government – even retaining those...ons – particularly from local authorities – into the senio...und 2005-’06, where the government decided to go out into the ma...

113 days ago

The coalition special advisers

...he Conservative Party HQ as a local government adviser. He later becam...he formation of the coalition government. But Wilkes was instead the c...of State for Communities and Local GovernmentSheridan Westlakewent to...er knowledge of efficiency in government to bear down on council waste...

179 days ago

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...Business, Innovation & Skills Department for Communities & Local Government Department for Culture, Media...Climate ChangeDialogue SocietyFDAForeign & Commonwealth Office Government Finance Profession Government...

7 days ago

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15 days ago

Companies

SAP

...is – we count thousands of government organisations serving te...n and integrate processes across government departments, between tiers of...shared services systems on a pan-government scale, for example in both De...st business software provider in local government in the UK as well as wo...

83 days ago

Kenexa

Kenexa Government Solutions is the only company in the HR marketplace that has the tools, services a...multiply success for the public sector. We impact all levels of government—from local to central—by identifying th...

126 days ago

Groups

Civil Service Physical Activity Challenge

...ivil Service Live on 7th July and Una and Jonathan have written to all government departments urging them...’. This includes Departments, their arms length bodies, agencies and local offices around the country.  Spec...

144 days ago

Departmental briefings

...e   Non-executive board membersSpecial Advisers        Back  to top     Department for Communities and Local GovernmentMinister's profileNon-executiv...

167 days ago

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Interview: Bob Kerslake

Sir Bob Kerslake has a record of taking tough jobs just as they get still tougher, and that’s certainly true of his arrival at the DCLG. He tells Matt Ross about localism, budget cuts, policy reform – and the threats to morale. Bob Kerslake left London for a job as chief executive of Sheffiel...

Tags: local and regional planning, local government, communities and neighbourhoods

130 days ago

Growth fund co-chair calls for return of regional government

Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, deputy chair of the Regional Growth Fund Advisory Panel, has criticised the government’s decision last year to do away with the government offices in the regions. Speaking to CSW on Monday at the Liberal Democrat conference, Wrigglesworth said he had been “very disappoi...

Tags: government offices for the regions, local government, economic growth

137 days ago

Comments

Comment on "Brown takes on teenage Mums"

...up, who cannot stay with their family.• It is backed by capital funding of £30million over 3 years from Communities and Local Government to support local authorities in reviewing and resha...

860 days ago

Comment on "To cut or not to cut"

...ems needed to achieve quality in Government.  I have found &nbs...ough various  issues within Government. I  was so impresse...mer's point of view?’ Many local authorities have come to the same...ople as quickly as possible. One local authority found that it took betwe...

854 days ago