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 booklet is based on a research project focused on how schools can build on good short-term school development planning and address the issues of both sustainability and of longer-term capability ...

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 ...

This best practice guide from the Department of Health sets out a balance between choice and risk in supported decision making. The guidance applies to those involved in supporting adults, 18 and over ...

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 ...

The leading newspaper for family doctors says that the Government wants to increase the amount of information that drug companies are allowed to give patients about prescription medicines. The report ...

An updated Climate Change Toolkit is being launched today by LACORS, the Local Authorities’ Coordinators of Regulatory Services to help councils deal with the issues. The launch has been timed to mark ...

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 ...

Results from a ten-year research project have shown that landfill sites can be restored and turned into woodland, parkland or farmland. It could mean an end to the common practice of closed sites ...

The Audit Commission has detailed a series of measures to keep down its costs. They include job cuts, reduced staff expenses and the scrapping of bonuses for directors in a move which the Commission ...

A warning has been issued that Government plans for changes to the system of offender management, which are due to be debated in the House of Lords today, could lead to a rise in rates of reoffending.

The chair of the Labour Party, Hazel Blears, has called for any future extension of state funding for political parties to encourage activity at local level to end the slide towards a position where ...