Promoting volunteering is on the agenda of the main political parties and its benefits are broadly recognised. Young Enterprise has a history of training and supporting volunteers effectively and its ...

Newcastle City Council is working with a regional charity to set up what is thought to be the country’s first youth council independent of the local authority. The new body, created with the support ...

Evaluating current cleaning processes should already be part and parcel of a mindset that seeks to consistently meet high standards. However, the fact that the new standard has been in place for just ...

Local authority chief executives and other senior managers have underlined in a new report the link between their ability to recruit and retain good staff and the condition of the local economies in ...

Councils, and all public sector workers faced with the challenge of market-testing their services, will welcome recognition from the Government that the quality and training of staff represents an ...

An action plan setting out how the new vision for local government will be realized has been published by the Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions. It takes forward the proposals ...

Front-line staff in the National Health Service are expected to benefit from the new Health and Social Care Information Centre, which has come into being this month. The Centre has been set up to ...

This report published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister looks at change and successes against the aims set out in the national Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy, and also sets out ideas for ...

The book incorporates a number of action strategies, such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice, into a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others.

The VOICE toolkit has gone live following two years of developing the e-democracy project. This online facility brings together neighbourhoods, community groups, parish and town councils, and elected ...

This report from Communities and Local Government investigates how councils are using e-government to respond to the needs of the socially excluded and in doing so contribute to the development of a ...

Newly revised to reflect the latest research, yet still highly practical in its focus, this is a book designed to confound a common misconception and demonstrate that target setting is possible within ...