A survey of the use of personal communication devices in the workplace in small and medium sized businesses reveals a growing demand to introduce more flexible and mobile work practices. The survey ...

This document sets out the government’s plan to promote the transfer of assets to communities. The plan challenges councils to maximise the transfer of public assets in order to make services more ...

All 43 police forces in England and Wales today begin a summer Drink and Drug Driving Campaign and it coincides with a warning from local government leaders that the World Cup is likely to lead an ...

Schools across England can now collaborate, to buy and pay for goods and services more efficiently online. It follows the linking of Capita’s SIMS management information system to the Department for ...

Paying money to pubic bodies, including fines, can be speeded up by giving incentives. Negative incentives, such as late payment fines, are less effective. The findings from a YouGov carried out for ...

In the same way as ‘star ratings’ have provided a common measure for hospitals, social service departments across England have now been subject to hotel-style performance measures.The social services ...

The Office for National Statistics has produced its first estimate of Government productivity and concluded that the trend is downwards. Between 1995 and 2001, government output went up by 11 per cent ...

The target to get all government services on line by 2005 is looking less achievable following the latest survey of central departments by the Office of the e-Envoy. Some 63% of services are now ...

This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. An expert panel from local and central government and acute and primary care ...

The explosion of social media use in the personal lives of many people has led over half of organisation to use social media tools to communicate and build communities with their employees. Cuts in ...

The Government is facing a call to review youth services to protect the country’s most marginalised children. Railway Children, a charity which works with young runaways wants clarification of the ...

A new resource centre has opened to support National Health Service and organisations working to involve people in local services. The national Patient and Public Involvement Resource Centre will ...