Some 5000 secondary schools will today receive resource packs that will help teachers and pupils explore and understand the issues surrounding climate change. The aim is to give young people ...

The report concludes by highlighting some steps the Government could take to improve understanding of the distribution of crime-related harm and diminish the role that crime plays in creating and ...

There were a record number of entries for this year’s Government Computing BT Awards for Innovation, which have seen prizes going to projects from local and central government and covering criminal ...

Local authorities have been set 10 requirements that campaigners believe they need to meet to make communities better for older people. The list has been produced by Help the Aged, which has published ...

Reproduced by permission of the Public Management and Policy Association. The external inspection of local government is nothing new. But it has expanded rapidly in recent years to the point where it ...

Health Minister John Denham has announced an innovative counter fraud scheme as part of the strategy launched in December 1998. Fraud will be tackled at local, regional and national levels. The ...

It starts from the premise that all local authorities should evaluate the potential for implementing a shared services approach for provision of their corporate services, particularly their systems ...

A further 22 of the poorest neighbourhoods in the UK have been allocated funds from the New Deal for Communities budget for re-generation. Each partnership was given 200,000 pounds in November 1999 to ...

Colonel Bob Stewart believes leading under pressure is as great a challenge as it can get, and he should know. Having served in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, where he was British battalion commander, ...

The Prime has said dropping the private finance initiative would be a fundamental mistake at a time when the government is determined to press ahead with reform in the public services and a radical ...

Local authorities have been told to start finding ways to monitor their carbon emissions before new legislation comes into force. The think-tank, the Local Government Information Unit, has said it ...

Designed for those whose work involves dealing with customers, this new book reflects a new age in which organisations consider customer care a vital strategic issue. It includes hints and tips on ...