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Home-working Mark Two
The opportunity for team-based skills/knowledge development The sudden return of advice to encourage maximum use of home-working provides an opportunity for organisations to invest in team-based learning. First-time around, we…
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Metro Mayors deny they were consulted …
In recent days, municipal leaders have queued up to complain that they have not been adequately consulted about imminent plans for further actions to seek to contain the COVID-19 second…
Read more“Councillors back play areas campaign – an opportunity to use Participatory budgeting?”
A Clydebank mum has told of her hopes that councils across Scotland will work to ensure all outdoor play areas are accessible for all children, following a promise made by…
Read moreBCP Conservatives to look ‘carefully’ at active travel schemes
The new Conservative administration running BCP Council will look “very carefully” at the conurbation’s controversial active travel schemes. Under the previous Unity Alliance leadership, the local authority introduced a number…
Read more‘Major programme of savings’ needed warn St Helens Council
“Radical” reductions in council services could be proposed in an effort to shrink a projected £20.4 million budget gap next year, a senior councillor has warned. St Helens Borough Council…
Read moreNo Lockdown for Online Consultation
This time last year consultation events were taking place across the country, and there was not a face mask or a hand sanitiser in sight. That scene is hard to…
Read moreTorbay Hospital £400m rebuild will bring major changes to NHS services
The NHS is planning a major change in how healthcare is provided in Devon as part of a massive hospital rebuilding programme. The Government says its investment at Torbay Hospital…
Read moreTemporary closure of children’s services at the Royal Free
NHS bosses have moved to reassure the public about the future of the Royal Free Hospital’s children’s A&E, amid calls for senior decision-makers to answer questions from concerned locals. Writing…
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Parliament, consultation and the local lockdown
The lack of consultation on the coronavirus regulations was again top of the agenda in Parliament this week, though the debate has moved from the Commons to the Lords. In…
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