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With the uptake of social media initiatives in the UK public sector lagging behind other European countries, what steps can this sector take to manage the associated risks and step up a gear?
Continue reading Public sector should wise up and take the social media plunge
The UK public sector is facing its most serious funding challenge for many years. Given the state of the public finances, major spending cuts are inevitable or costs will spiral out of control. While this is starting to be recognised at all levels, there is no clear roadmap of how to get there.
Continue reading The Future for Public Sector Funding -Surviving the Storm
In the wake of a report commissioned by the Government blaming the UK’s business leaders for low levels of staff engagement, employers working within local Government are being warned not to use the recession as an excuse for failing to acknowledge the efforts of their employees over the festive period.
Continue reading Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
The National Heritage Debate on 2nd December was hosted by the former Heritage Link- after announcing the new name and introducing a new Chair- Loyd Grossman. The audience represented the wide range of heritage organisations all of whom have benefited from the umbrella of the organisation and its success.
Continue reading HTF welcomes THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE
Children as young as seven are learning how to prepare themselves for the world of work, including the value of a CV, under an innovative project run by Hays, the world’s leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people.
Continue reading Recruiting company teaching works skills to pupils ahead of government pilot
No one wants to be featured next in the all-too-frequent litany of headlines like -Confidential Data on Stolen Memory Stick or -Lost Laptop Contains Classified Information. Human error does occur, but there are straightforward ways to minimise the likelihood that any such misfortune will cause major problems.
Continue reading How Robust Are Your Data Security Measures?
You can’t go 10 minutes without a politician banging on about the looming cuts to public sector spending. What you won’t hear is anyone explaining how we are actually meant to find and deliver these savings. The word cuts has quickly switched from banned to election winning, but there is another C-word that politicians and senior civil servants must embrace if we are going to get through the next few years without decimating our services. That word is commissioning.
Continue reading Don't mention the C-word
Many organisations continue to use conventional construction methods to satisfy their expansion requirements. However, certain procedures involved in the traditional build process not only impact on the environment, but can cause major disruption to business activities, employees and visitors.
Continue reading Accio Group providing cost effective structures
Every day, local and national government and public sector departments manage millions of documents related to the individuals they deal with and the services they provide. Nick Rowley, managing director of workflow management company Oceanus discusses how to keep track of this countless correspondence, and how document management within the public sector must evolve to embrace new communication challenges.
Continue reading Public Sector Document Management
Engineers at the University of Bath have opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory that allows them to measure very large objects, such as aeroplane wings, to within a fraction of a millimetre.
Continue reading Engineers get the measure of the larger things in life
The government-appointed Working Group charged with setting rules for how ‘game birds’ will in future be produced for shooting has caused widespread dismay this week by publishing a Code of Practice that fails to outlaw the notorious battery cage for breeding birds.
Continue reading Demand for ban on game bird cages
Injuries and their consequences produce a heavy burden on society in terms of short and long term disability, mortality, economic loss and health care costs. Whilst injuries account for only about three per cent of total deaths in Wales, the distribution of the age of death in those dying is very different from most other causes of death with a high proportion of deaths occurring in the young. After the age of one, injury is the first or second leading cause of death in most European countries, including Wales.
Continue reading Home Injuries highlighted by SafeHome Tool
Hospitals in the UK produce an estimated 206 million reports each year, with general practitioners adding another 184 million. Currently, transcription of medical dictation consumes half a billion pounds of the NHS budget each year. Add to that the increasing healthcare requirements of an aging society and it becomes obvious that healthcare providers must act, in order to ensure high quality care while keeping costs down.
Continue reading Speech recognition within the UK health policy framework
At the heart of the Government’s plans for public sector reform is the need to reduce costs, and improve the accountability and quality of the services it delivers. In April, Chancellor Alastair Darling announced plans to make £9 billion in efficiency cuts each year by 2013, in addition to the £5 billion announced in the pre-Budget report in November 2008.
Continue reading Governments plans for public sector reform
Stuart Littleford speaks with Jeremy Galpin, Sales Director of De Poel Consulting. Prior to joining de Poel, Jeremy spent nine years working for one of the UK’s largest recruitment groups. Having worked initially in operations, Jeremy then progressed to a corporate business development role where he was responsible for delivering group recruitment solutions to some of the UK’s largest logistics and manufacturing companies.
Continue reading Is the Government tendering processes a hindrance to the public sector cuts?
Matthew Sanders, CEO for de Poel Consulting, the number one procurer of temporary agency labour in the UK, believes so. The Government tendering processes excluding small businesses (SMEs) from public sector contracts is not a new phenomenon. For years, this volatile albeit significant group has been prohibited from sharing in the estimated £175Bn of tax payers’ money spent on both goods and services every year.
Continue reading De Poel Consulting
As public sector organisations creating an ever-expanding volume of data and face increasing regulatory requirements, the need for stringent records management policies has never been greater. Frank Hopping, Managing Director of Crown Records Management (UK & Ireland) examines what’s at stake and explores how to develop effective procedures.
Continue reading Records Management
With the spectre of 2011 looming ever closer, local authorities with National Challenge schools are increasingly turning to the National Challenge Trust (NCT) school model as a way of strengthening leadership and raising achievement. But as Mark Blois and Vicki Hair of law firm Browne Jacobson explain, the transition to NCT status could be anything but smooth.
Continue reading Rising to the Challenge
Top economist Roger Bootle warns UK house price to fall another 35% in 2010. In an interview with Nigel Pivaro for the Government & Public Sector Journal Roger Bootle warns that house prices are set to fall dramatically next year and we are still a long way from seeing the end of the recession. Nigel asks him some interesting questions after reading Rogers new book ‘The Trouble With Markets’.
Continue reading Top economist Roger Bootle warns UK house price to fall another 35% in 2010
Jim Watson, the managing director of Shred Easy, one of the UK’s largest confidential data shredding companies, discusses advances in shredding technology and the benefits of recycling confidential data. According to Home Office figures, identity fraud is costing the UK £1.7billion a year – that’s £35 a head for the entire population. It’s hardly surprising when roughly 60 million people in the UK use sheets of paper to exchange information.
Continue reading Shredding Fraud into a Green Opportunity.
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