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The Guardian Public Services Awards, in partnership with Hays Specialist Recruitment, launch today. Now in their seventh year, the Awards are the leading celebration of excellence among organisations commissioning or providing services, showcasing innovation and best practice across Whitehall, local government, the NHS and beyond. Continue reading THE GUARDIAN PUBLIC SERVICES AWARDS
Britain’s largest land manager, the Forestry Commission, has awarded Fujitsu a new five-year contract to maintain all of its ICT hardware across the Commission in England, Scotland and Wales. Fujitsu originally won the six-year contract to run the Forestry Commission’s IT in 2003. The new contract was won in a competitive tender through the Catalist framework. Continue reading Forestry Commission awards Fujitsu five year contract to manage IT estate
Lean thinking, and working, has had huge buy-in from across the manufacturing sector for many years now and, more recently, there are increasing numbers of organisations from service and public sectors who are beginning to understand that lean principles and approaches are just as relevant to them. Continue reading Lean thinking for peak public sector performance
Hot on the heels of Audit Scotland’s timely publication on the need to improve public sector efficiency comes the call for written evidence from the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee on what preparations are required by the public sector to deliver efficient public services during a time of tightening public expenditure. The evidence period extends to the end of March but the key themes are not hard to discern. Continue reading Can Political Leaders Deliver On Public Sector Cuts?
A Labour-dominated Select Committee has today slammed Labour Ministers for their botched plans to regionalise the fire service. It declares that the project has -been inadequately planned, poorly executed, and badly managed and a -catalogue of poor judgement and mismanagement. Continue reading Taxpayers foot the bill for catalogue of errors on new Fire HQs
Lesley Strathie, Permanent Secretary at HMRC, responded to the recent review from the Cabinet Office with a spirited defence of her leadership team and the changes they have already made to improve processes and structures within the organisation. Continue reading HMRC ' Structure and speed can achieve Strathie's vision
Living up to its reputation as a specialist in the field of leadership and learning development, pearcemayfield, has launched an audio series on the 2009 edition of project management method PRINCE2. Continue reading TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
We have received another report of mysterious low flying black aircraft, we reported other instances of these in the past, another was spotted yesterday near the Huddersfield on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border. It was described as being the size of a jumbo jet, matt black and hugging the hillsides at around one hundred feet from the ground. Continue reading Strange black aircraft – more sightings reported
The Cardiac and Stroke Network in Lancashire and Cumbria has transformed the efficiency of its own operation using Lean methodologies and is now taking the principles of Lean into the clinical environment to help improve patient services. By adopting Lean practices, the Network has dramatically reduced time spent on administrative tasks – releasing more time to spend on supporting frontline services and to increase its workload by more than double by assimilating stroke into its work programme for Lancashire and Cumbria. Continue reading Spreading the lean message
‘The consulting culture that costs taxpayers £100m a year’ declares the Times headline – ‘consultants earn more than the Prime Minister’ the article goes on to proclaim. The implication is clear, the public sector is squandering taxpayers’ money and it’s a disgrace! How can the consultancy profession defend such accusations especially when times are tough? Continue reading The Effective Management Consultant ' getting value from your consultancy spend
-The latest unemployment figures are good news on the face of things, but only on the face of things. Taken in the round, the latest figures show that the UK jobs market remains in a far from healthy state and it would be wrong to conclude that unemployment has peaked. Continue reading Young people turning to study to avoid the dole
The huge challenges facing the public sector over the next few years to cut spending will regrettably mean redundancies for many public sector workers. Faced with this painful course of action, organisations of all shapes and sizes from local authorities, NHS health trusts and Government agencies will want to make it as painless as possible for all concerned, and do what they can to smooth the path to a new job for their ex-employees. Continue reading How online outplacement will help in tough cost-cutting times
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