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All of our articles and features are listed below. You can also access articles related to particular organisations by clicking on the menu bar above – for Public Sector People Managers’ Association, Local Authority Investigation Officers Group, ITS Training, the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, Profiles of specific employers, and the Association of Democratic Services Officers.
Legal Update – Craig Ward
The Care Quality Commission seeks your views about guidance on service users and their inspection and assessing. The new guidance addresses issues of; tackling breaches, essential human rights standards and monitoring standards. The consultation on the guidance runs till the 12 November 2010.... More »
The Value of Outplacement?
As the public sector braces itself for across the board job cuts, a recent survey of public sector workers found that 85% of them want career transition services and CV/interview advice to be made compulsory. They also found that 50% of public sector employees expect further redundancies in the next twelve months. The Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that 600,000 jobs will go in the public sector by 2016 as massive spending cuts are imposed.... More »
IRRV Performance Awards Short List 2010
The 2010 Performance Awards Scheme looked to build upon the successful schemes of recent years. Again there were nine categories divided into 'Team' and 'Excellence" awards. This year, a new category of 'Excellence in Innovation' was introduced, designed to recognise a range of initiatives, not just in I.T., that have been taken forward by organisations.... More »
Mind-set for Zero Basing Departmental Operations
Funny thing with departments and organisations; they come into existence to perform a particular function, and then almost immediately start to become less efficient. Layers of management are added, more demands are placed on the front line people to do extra tasks.... More »
Legal Update – Craig Ward
The Department of Health (DH) is dieing to find out in their consultation on Fitness to Practice.... More »
