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Belt required Braces optional
  Coaching, Mentoring and management learning sets are the belt and braces of leadership development, which a manager uses is a matter of personal preference, opportunity and local...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Consultation on changes to HSCIC Statistics 2016/17 - 2018/19
What is this consultation? The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publishes around 90 series of Official Statistics and National Statistics each year. Use of health and care...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Poverty and children's personal and social relationships
Children who live in poverty are more likely to be solitary and to fall out with friends or be bullied according to new analysis of age 11 sweep data from the Millennium Cohort Study, published by...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Health Behaviours in Young People tool - local authority level comparisons
The Health Behaviours in Young People tool provides local authority level estimates for several topic areas, based on what 15 year olds themselves said about their attitudes to healthy lifestyles...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Life in the UK 2016 - Wellbeing
The ONS has released a snapshot of life in the UK charting progress across 41 indicators of national wellbeing. Seventeen of the 41 indicators have improved over the last three years, 8 have...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Winter is coming
  There is a constant threat of decline and sense of wrongness in the world. There are kings and king makers, trial by combat, scheming and betrayal and a delicious habit of bumping of the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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Loneliness maps published by Age UK
What factors make older people more at risk of loneliness? And do people with similar risk levels live near each other? By analysing data from the English Longitudinal Study on...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  18 Apr 2016
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The poor need an accountant more than a social worker
  I remember a lecturer on the social work course who was fond of saying " The rich and powerful have their own accountant but its the poor and those on benefits who most need them ". Her...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Apr 2016
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Digital Leaders 100 – Vote Knowledge Hub
Knowledge Hub is pleased and proud to announce that for the second year running we are included as part of the Digital Leaders 100 list (DL100) and are finalists nominated in the category SME...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  07 Apr 2016
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Culture Change
The aim was to change the management culture and the way things are done has certainly changed. It was not however the cultural change programme with its emphasis on management development that has...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Apr 2016
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SALT data 2014-15 comparator dashboard
This helpful comparator report produced by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) analyses data from the Short and Long Term (SALT) Support data collection. This is the first...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  31 Mar 2016
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Consultation on the proposal to define a Primary Carer Support Reason (CPSR) for use within Adult Social Care National Data Collections
The HSCIC and its stakeholders have developed this consultation to consider potential changes to the 2017-18 national data collections on Adult Social Care.  Its primary focus is the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  30 Mar 2016
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Indices of Deprivation report now available on LG Inform
A new report on the latest Indices of Multiple Deprivation (2015) has been published on LG Inform. For a chosen authority users can compare overall deprivation with that of other...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  30 Mar 2016
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The Johan Cruyff method
Good team work requires everyone to play their part. Everyone knows their role, no one tries to do someone else's job, experience has taught how to respond to different situations , training...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Mar 2016
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Is this Leadership or Bullying
  One participant, a young woman , immediately volunteered an account of how she had confronted a member of her team about the standard of their work.  " I challenged her and she left -...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Mar 2016
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Health matters: midlife approaches to reduce dementia risk
Public Health England (PHE) has published a new report which shows dementia is not an inevitable part of ageing but is, instead, linked to cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking and physical...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  24 Mar 2016
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When Harry met Sally
  Passion is an over used word in local government especially in job interviews. Candidates for management posts are always "passionate" about the service, passionate about empowering staff/...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Mar 2016
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Connecting and collaborating across Europe
It was my pleasure and privilege to be invited to present a walkthrough of the Knowledge Hub to some of our new UDiTE network members in Malaga, Spain, this weekend. As well as being welcomed into...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  21 Mar 2016
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Chief Executives meet to discuss perspectives for local government in 2030
Udite chief executives are meeting this weekend In Malaga to discuss the impact of austerity cuts on local government. Members of the UDITE's executive committee will discuss EU funding for...
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UDiTE Admin
Last updated:  18 Mar 2016
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Arts for health and wellbeing: an evaluation framework
The arts, including music, dance, theatre, visual arts and writing, are increasingly recognised as having the potential to support health and wellbeing. However, in order for arts to be included in...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Maximising the Value of Survey Data in Adult Social Care (MAX)
MAX is a new project funded by the Department of Health via the Quality and Outcomes of Person-centred Care Policy Research Unit (QORU). The aim of this project is to find ways to maximise the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Infographic: District council's contribution to public health
In partnership with District Councils' Network, the King's Fund have produced a set of slides that illustrate the key role played by district councils in keeping us healthy. Please feel free...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Public release of 2015 Social Services Workforce Statistics data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has published the Personal Social Services: Staff of Social Services Departments, England as at September 2015. The report is available on our...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Two new publications from the LGA on the theme of obesity and planning
The Local Government Association (LGA) have recently published two new reports on the theme of obesity and planning. Building the foundations: tackling obesity through planning and development...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Safeguarding Adults Return Comparator Dashboard
This Safeguarding Adults Return Comparator Dashboard from the HSCIC analyses data from the Safeguarding Adults Return (SAR). Comparator groups are a selection of 15 councils considered to be...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Mental Health Intelligence Network: Key profiling tool updates
The suite of National Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network (NMHIN) profiling tools has been developed to support an intelligence driven approach to understanding and meeting...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Health and housing guides provide roadmap for integrated working
Public Health England (PHE) and the Housing Learning & Improvement Network (Housing LIN) have published two practical resources aimed at improving services around housing and end of life care...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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HSCIC Lifestyles data findings
The Health and Social Care Information Centre Lifestyles Team recently carried out a user consultation on the four reports from the Statistics On … series which covers Obesity, Smoking, Alcohol and...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Child Health Profiles 2016 now available
The Child Health Profiles 2016 presents data across 32 key health indicators of child health and wellbeing, and provide a snapshot of young people’s health by local authority and CCG in England. ...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Better use of data consultation
The Cabinet Office has published a consultation about enabling information sharing between public authorities to improve the lives of citizens and support decisions on the economy and society. The...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Clever use of infographics - if the world were 100 people....
When you shrink the world's population down to 100 people, this is what you get - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxXmTGBMYhw&feature=youtu.be Published on Mar 14, 2016     ...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  17 Mar 2016
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Career Myths
That after the big post the next move is the big LA.  That being forced out of one LA means you won't be welcome in another.  That playing the political card and echoing the views of the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Mar 2016
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Making a Manager
The struggle to stay true to your professional and personal values. The compromises that undermine your integrity. The fixation on budgets and performance  The gradual desensitisation The...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Mar 2016
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Stress is out of fashion
Stress like the public sector is not fashionable but that doesn't mean it's no longer present. Whether you regard it as bad for business that over stressed managers make bad decisions or  you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Mar 2016
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Congratulations to Phoenix (PS&P)
Congratulations to one of Knowledge Hub's commercial sponsors, Phoenix, on their recent win at this years BPA Awards. Phoenix issued the following announcment; We are delighted to announce that...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  09 Mar 2016
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Digital Exclusion Heatmap
I'd like to introduce you to a resource published last year which I think could help with planning for digital projects. One issue with a digital content or service focussed...
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Edmund Lee
Last updated:  08 Mar 2016
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Is anyone going to say sorry?
  As local authorities bring back in house services that were outsourced, as yet another chief executive says we can get better value for money in house and another council leader says this...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Mar 2016
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Public Health England's One You health campaign targeting over 40s
One You Health campaign targets over 40s Unhealthy middle-aged people must improve their lifestyles if they want to enjoy a healthy retirement, a new government campaign is warning. Public...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  07 Mar 2016
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Does the managers professional background matter?
  Would you rather be managed by someone who has done your job all be it years ago or someone who had no experience of your work but was keen to learn? Do you think senior managers need...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  03 Mar 2016
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Nursing in numbers - infographic
Nursing: employment and vacancies by sector infographic. Illustration by Adeline O'Moreau available on the Guardian Healthcare Network
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  02 Mar 2016
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