Publication Database

Preventing extremism in schools and children's services

23-Dec-15

Department for Education

What the government is doing to prevent extremism in the education and children's services sectors. Added information on assessing and managing the risk of a terrorist attack.

Services

National Citizen Service 2014 Evaluation

22-Dec-15

Ipsos MORI

Ipsos MORI was commissioned by the Cabinet Office to evaluate the spring, summer and autumn programmes of National Citizen Service (NCS) 2014. It calculates that it may not have achieved a return on investment of more than the basic cost in both the spring and autumn programmes.

Services

Remaking the State

19-Nov-15

ACEVO

ACEVO has launched the findings of their Commission into Delivering Better Public Services, co-chaired by Rob Owen, CEO of the St Giles Trust, and Will Hutton, author and social commentator.

Services

Future funding outlook for councils 2019/20

01-Jun-15

Local Government Association

Published by the LGA show that Councils face �3.3bn reduction in government funding by 2016/17. The funding gap could potentially grow to �10.8 billion by 2019/20. It sets out the financial challenge faced�by councils that the government needs to consider when making decisions in the July Budget and the autumn Spending Review. This analysis will be updated and finalised following the Spending Review announcements.

Services

Innovation in Youth Work: Thinking in practice

01-May-15

YMCA

This report aims to offer reflections for youth workers to stimulate their thinking, dialogue and practice. Some of the sections include suggested activities that can be used with young people directly; others are for use with staff and volunteers to prompt discussion about youth work in the current context that practitioners find themselves in. Their aim for the resource is that it will encourage innovative thinking and practice through ideas and activities that youth workers find useful and that will help them to consider their work together with other youth workers and young people. A range of issues and topics are covered within the report including, among others; volunteering, evaluation, conflict, mentoring and social action.

Services

THE DAMAGE: An austerity audit: Coalition cuts to local communities in England since 2010

01-May-15

UNISON

UNISON's new report Austerity Audit reveals the extent of the damage done to council services in England since 2010,and the people that provide them, as well to police forces. The report provides further evidence that by imposing swingeing cuts to the budgets of police forces across the UK, the government has put policing in crisis and placed neighbourhoods and communities at risk. Austerity Uncovered notes that the government has already cut funding to local councils by £12.5bn or 37 per cent since May 2010 the equivalent of 232 for every person in the country, and calls into question government claims in regard to future levels of spending cuts to government departments.

Services

Effective leadership of children's services: joining the dots

10-Mar-15

Ofsted

The report draws on evidence from 9 local authorities in which Ofsted identified the common characteristics of successful leaders in children�s services. They included Royal Boroughs of Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea and London Boroughs of Redbridge and Sutton

Services

The Wolf at the Door: How council tax debt collection is harming children

01-Mar-15

The Children's Society

Research from the Children's Society has found that many local authorities are failing to provide sufficient support and advice to families struggling with council tax debt by using damaging debt practices. This leaves families worrying about potential bailiff visits and court summonses, which has a damaging impact on children's and parents' emotional and physical health.

Services

Social Value Act Review - Lord Young's report

18-Feb-15

Public Service Transformation Network

Lord Young has asked the Minister for the Cabinet Office to prevent the Act�s thresholds from increasing to 750,000 euros for many services when the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 come into force.�

Services

What works? The rise of experimental government, Gov

27-Jan-15

Cabinet Office

Public service professions have lagged behind the medical profession in using empirical evidence to guide decision making. David Halpern, National Adviser on What Works & CEO of Behavioural Insights Team, explains how the emergence of �What Works Centres� can change this, and outlines the case for �radical incrementalism�.

Services