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Review: PCC Day at the LGA Conference
Yesterday saw PCC Day at the LGA Annual Conference, where close to 50 PCC candidates joined around 1,200 delegates in Birmingham for the final day in local government’s yearly jamboree. Below is...
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Chris Williams
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  29 Meh 2012
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Co-production in health and social care
  Do you think there's a need for people to seek to work more closely with those responsible for health, the providers of social care and the deliverers of other services? And by 'those...
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Adrian Barker
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  27 Meh 2012
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Local Government Challenge 2012 – the final challenge
The Local Government Challenge, now in its third year, is designed to give staff with the drive and determination to reach the top, the opportunity to demonstrate their individual and team...
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Liz Copeland
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  27 Meh 2012
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Local Government Challenge 2012 – the final challenge
The Local Government Challenge, now in its third year, is designed to give staff with the drive and determination to reach the top, the opportunity to demonstrate their individual and team...
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Liz Copeland
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  27 Meh 2012
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From bonsai trees to biscuits – how do we create healthy organisations?
It’s a good question and one that was addressed by key private sector business leaders Brian Dive, Managing Director of DMA Consultancy and Anthony Thomson, Chairman of Metro Bank this morning. ...
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Liz Copeland
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  27 Meh 2012
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The Health of the Nation – Plenary 2
This morning at the LGA conference I attended the plenary session on how councils can make the best of the reforms in the NHS. A new LGA report was published on the LGA webiste in tandem with...
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Michael MacAuley
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  02 Gorff 2012
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The Health of the Nation – Plenary 2
This morning at the LGA conference I attended the plenary session on how councils can make the best of the reforms in the NHS. A new LGA report was published on the LGA webiste in tandem with...
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Michael MacAuley
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  02 Gorff 2012
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Talking it over - why CSMs and PCCs need to start chatting now
Across the country the PCC campaigns are starting to properly swing. Last week Labour announced its 41 candidates, and seemingly every day new Conservative candidates are being announced, to join...
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Chris Williams
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  26 Meh 2012
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Over worked and over tired
Do you wake up refreshed and energised or do you struggle out of bed following another restless night tired even before the day has started? You are not alone a new study by Vielife involving...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  21 Meh 2012
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Connecting with communities through conversations
Did you know...? More than two thirds of online adults are connected to one or more social media platforms. Half of Facebook’s 30 million UK users log on every day. 70 per cent of...
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Liz Copeland
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  19 Meh 2012
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Re Branding
I visited my mother in law recently in her sheltered housing scheme and I noticed her Housing Association had changed their logo again. This seems to be the fashion in the public sector as...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  19 Meh 2012
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The Public Sector is the real thing (Charlie Chaplin)
Apparently Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest! How could the real thing be rejected in favour of a lookalike? Why would anyone chose a poor imitation over the...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  14 Meh 2012
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How to blatantly promote your group on the Knowledge Hub
How to blatantly promote your group on the Knowledge Hub Are you a facilitator of a group on the Knowledge Hub?  And you’re not a member of the Online Facilitators Community; well...
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Michael Norton
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  12 Meh 2012
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The Good and the Bad in our Leaders
Leaders risk not realising their full potential if they don’t develop insight into the effect their behaviour has on others. The very qualities that make some individuals outstanding leaders...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  11 Meh 2012
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Social media, digital inclusion ... winds of change ....
  With just over two weeks to go until the LGA's Annual Conference in Birmingham, things are getting mighty busy in the communications department here. Last year we experimented with...
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Sarah Jennings
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  08 Meh 2012
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A provocative appiontment
  Naming a civilian as the Governments preferred candidate for the post of Chief Inspector is provocative. After all he has already had the police marching through the streets of London in...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  08 Meh 2012
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UnCivil Servants
  It’s nothing to do with pensions or pay freezes we just think our colleagues are incompetent, appointed for their political affiliations not their ability and our ministers are blinkered...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  07 Meh 2012
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The numbers are what counts
  The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  06 Meh 2012
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Truth, Trust and Twitter
It was great to see social media high on the agenda for day one of this year’s LGCommunications conference in Birmingham, which I attended on Tuesday. Indeed the first publication I picked up...
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Liz Copeland
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  31 Mai 2012
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Call yourself a manager
  Management covers a range of activities, managing budgets, managing information, managing buildings and equipment. But you are not a proper manager unless you manage people. People are...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  28 Mai 2012
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Commissioning - what PCCs will need to know
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the ACPO Conference, in a session entitled "Making Sense of Commissioning" on the PCC day of the event. Given the close links with...
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Chris Williams
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  29 Mai 2012
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Hire and Misfire
  I would have sacked a lot more people if I could have got away with it. If this government has its way then in the future managers will be able to fire at will. Under a raft of proposals...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  24 Mai 2012
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Chillaxing
Chillaxing is a new word combining chilling as in chill out and relaxing. It is being used in relation to leadership to describe someone who doesn’t let work issues worry them unduely and finds...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  22 Mai 2012
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The fall of Rome
  The opening scene of the film The Fall of the Roman Empire pans steeply up to the top of a high viaduct. Along the top, lined up shoulder to shoulder, on the very edge looking down at...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  21 Mai 2012
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Are you a knower?
I have written a guest blog for Progression Partnership and it is available here http://www.progressionpartnership.com/are-you-a-knower
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Paul Summers
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  21 Mai 2012
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PCCs - the big question for CSPs!
In this age of austerity, the question on the lips of many partnerships is - "What will happen to our money next year?" Places have been used to having percentage reductions in grant funding...
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Chris Williams
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  18 Mai 2012
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The numbers can't hear you
  The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  16 Mai 2012
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Bounce- back ability
  I don’t recommend getting the sack as a way to advance your career. But if you have never failed, never been out of step with colleagues and never refused to compromise then you probably...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  11 Mai 2012
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The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector Group needs you!
  The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector otherwise knows as (KIMPs) has always been more of a knowledge stewarding community.  With it’s large collection of...
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Michael Norton
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  10 Mai 2012
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Why don't we do what works?
   In her new book “Delivering public services that work” Charlotte Dell gives case example after case example of public sector organisations that have found a better way of doing...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  10 Mai 2012
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It’s not all over for the sweet toothed web - Cookies and Privacy
Today I attended one of DCLG’s Local Direct Gov ‘Really Useful’ sessions on Cookies and Privacy. This was to discuss the consensus approach to the forthcoming EU Electronics Communications...
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Michael MacAuley
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  28 Mai 2012
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Plugging the gaps
 In a recent survey of 50 local authorities by the RCA a third reported achieving budget savings by cutting a little from every budget where as the majority were cutting costs by setting up...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  07 Mai 2012
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How far should a local authority go to get what it's owed?
  Not everyone pays their bills. A local authority has a duty to ensure public money is properly managed and this means chasseing up those who don’t pay their council tax, their rent or...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  03 Mai 2012
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Involving people to get their input to groups and partnerships
  A familiar, difficult and critical issue came up at our Healthwatch development group recently. Basically: 'it's great having all you people round the table – we've accepted any offers...
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Adrian Barker
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  24 Ebr 2012
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New stuff to play with
Well it seems only a blink of an eye since I wrote the last post but so much has happened. There's been lots of social and messaging functions added to the platform and we finally delivered...
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Michael MacAuley
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  24 Ebr 2012
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Headhunters,Beauty parades and Trial by Sherry
  My personal experience is that the process of filling senior management posts is complex and drawn out over several days.  Is this the best way to get the right person for the top...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  25 Ebr 2012
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Does transparency of data need comparability?
The National Audit Office have released today a report on data transparency. I think they have slightly misunderstood the nature of transparency when it comes to discuss local government (see...
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Neil Wholey
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  19 Ebr 2012
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Relax don't do it
  Relaxed about the budget, relaxed about the restructuring, relaxed about the prospects of the service being outsourced we may have got it wrong about all those stressed-out public sector...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  25 Ebr 2012
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The only reward for hard work is more work
  When you read that statement did you think, yes, the more I do the more they give me to do? As a manager it is very tempting to pile on the work to someone you know will do a good job as...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  16 Ebr 2012
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Recipe for success…how to cook up a day of public sector digital goodness
Serves: 16431+ Preparation time: as long as it takes Cooking time: a day or so   Ingredients   60+ digi types (a high quality mix from 14 local authorities and 16 public...
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Lesley Thomson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:  14 Ebr 2012
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