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Retailers need to be mobile friendly to ensure a Happy Christmas

03.12.12: New research from bss digital reveals that changes in consumer purchasing behaviour this Christmas will impact retailers who do not have mobile enabled websites. 9% (approximately 1 in 10 shoppers) who used a PC to do their Christmas s...

Beyond energy efficiency

01.06.12: William Murray, managing director of Janex, explains its mission to bring sustainable and high-quality Scandinavian-style doors and windows to UK buildings. Energy efficiency is not just about specifying products with the lowest u-values, a...

Fighting fraud locally

01.06.12: Grant Thornton UK LLP undertook research into local authorities' efforts to tackle fraud. The article below outlines some of the key findings of this research.  Introduction Grant Thornton UK LLP (Grant Thornton) was approached by...

Getting value from CESP before it's too late

01.06.12: Jean Parbrook, a business development manager with Climate Energy, says that time is running out for local authorities and registered social landlords (RSLs) to claim funding for carbon saving measures from the energy companies. Since the l...

Good services, good management and good professional training go hand in hand

01.06.12: Sue Hall, chief executive of the West Yorkshire Probation Trust, discusses the role staff development has to play in delivering good services and staff management. To provide the best services you need good people who are well managed,&rdqu...

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Making employment work

21/05/2013Making employment work

With unemployment rising again, and the resulting poverty and dependence on welfare that it brings, the Government’s intervention to help t... more >
PSN ‘genuine enabler’ for collaboration

21/05/2013PSN ‘genuine enabler’ for collaboration

The Public Services Network (PSN) could help deliver collaboration and service transformation to meet increasing demand for services in the publi... more >
Gay marriage ‘wrecking amendment’ rejected by MPs

21/05/2013Gay marriage ‘wrecking amendment’ rejected by MPs

The legislation to introduce same-sex marriage survived backbench Tory opposition last night and will receive its third and final reading in the ... more >
Work Programme ‘not reaching most disadvantaged’ – MPs

21/05/2013Work Programme ‘not reaching most disadvantaged’ – MPs

The Welfare to Work programme may still be failing people in most difficult circumstances, MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee have found. ... more >
Public procurement

20/05/2013Public procurement

Please could someone advise: I have just heard that EU directives for proposed 2014 supply of good services that the threshold may change to 500k... more >

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The private governance of public services

04/04/2013The private governance of public services

Chris Painter, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management at Birmingham City University, argues that the Coalition’s public service... more >
First aid in the workplace - What the public sector needs to know

01/04/2013First aid in the workplace - What the public sector needs to know

Richard Evens, commercial training director at St John Ambulance, discusses the importance of first aid training to the public sector. Any o... more >
Changing behaviour by design

01/04/2013Changing behaviour by design

Ed Gardiner, behavioural design lead at Warwick Business School, discusses the power of behavioural design in the fight to tackle obesity. I... more >
Preventing the pitfalls of public sector marketing

01/04/2013Preventing the pitfalls of public sector marketing

The Charted Institute of Marketing (CIM)’s head of research Mark Blayney Stuart describes the importance of good marketing in times of fina... more >
Transforming public sector services

01/04/2013Transforming public sector services

Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK, discusses the potential of the Social Value Act and how councils can make the most of th... more >

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The most efficient part of the public sector

01/04/2013The most efficient part of the public sector

How can councils help each other to deliver services in a better and more affordable way, since the demise of the national inspection regimes? Cl... more >
The best advice

01/04/2013The best advice

A growing number of councils seeking to get the best evidence to inform their decision-making have turned to independent commissions. Paul Hacket... more >
A new approach to public health

01/04/2013A new approach to public health

Dominic Harrison, joint director of public health, engagement and partnerships at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, highlights the need to m... more >

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Measuring wellbeing relies on leadership to allow our society's happiness to flourish

Measuring wellbeing relies on leadership to allow our society's happiness to flourish

Jennifer Wallace, policy manager at Carnegie UK Trust, explores the wellbeing agenda. The concept of ‘wellbeing’ provides us with a path towards addressing many of society’s oft... more > more last word articles >

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01/02/2013What you see - what you get?

Our focus on the public realm, urban design and communal space in this edition of PSE is a good reminder that for all the work done in boardrooms and back offices across the public sector, it is what people actually see that has the biggest influence on what they think. It is sometimes said that people don’t really care who runs public services, as long as they work. That is why the volunteermanaged model is so appealing to local author... read more >

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  • 09/05/2013Car-sharing introduced for Cambridgeshire

    Cambridgeshire County Council has introduced a car-sharing programme to provide more flexible and cost-effective transport for staff. The move aims...
  • 01/04/2013Top of the league

    Energy efficiency is a key consideration for local government, with a potential for savings that can be reinvested into stretched services....
  • 01/04/2013A reason to change

    Chiltern Railways recently won a CIM award for its ‘Mainline’ campaign. The train operator’s commercial director, Thomas Ableman...
  • 01/04/2013Individual output on a shared platform

    PSE speaks to Takki Sulaiman, head of communications at Tower Hamlets council, about a far-reaching new print contract that could generate...
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Making employment work

21/05/2013Making employment work

With unemployment rising again, and the resulting poverty and dependence on welfare that it brings, the Government’s intervention to help those most in need of work seems to be failing. Poor initial results and criticism by MPs highlight the need to go further to find employment for Britain’s most disadvantaged. Despite a... more >
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