Councils are being urged to create ‘naked streets’ with fewer signs, traffic lights and what campaigners call clutter. The call has come from the charity Living Streets, a national organisation ...

The aim of this book is to help the reader become better at preparing and doing presentations. There is a secondary aim. This is to be part of the process of ridding the world of poor presentations, ...

Changes are needed in the way drugs are evaluated according to experts who say patients and health services are getting a poor return on their investment into new drugs. In an article published on bmj ...

Local people will soon be able to demand their council takes action on underperforming schools and hospitals, drink disorder, anti-social behaviour and other concerns under new rules giving real power ...

The Department for Education and Skills plans to use partnership working as a lever to improve educational standards.There are already many examples of successful partnerships within educational ...

Efficiency savings which depend on partners carry a much greater risk and the Audit Commission is concerned that some expectations will not be met. Councils are planning for savings of between 1 and ...

This report sets out the findings from a survey of the business community on their views of the way regulations are enforced by local councils and fire and rescue services. The majority of businesses ...

A range of new ideas – many of them thought up in discussions with older people – are transforming the older person’s experience of services from their local councils.Today (Friday), several of those ...

Funding given to the police in April 2009 to deter criminals and increase the prospect of conviction is now delivering results. The technology they bought included automatic number plate recognition ...

Kate Priestley has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of NHS Estates. She succeeds John Locke who left the Agency at the end of August 1997 to become Chief Executive at Property Advisers to the ...

The importance of play in children’s development is well understood by child development theorists, early years practitioners and those offering play provision for older children. Children’s ...

New measures have been unveiled to speed up planning decisions and to encourage local authorities to make use of a power being introduced soon to raise funds from developers to support local ...