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2 days ago
Sick days are on the decline and it has been suggested that recent falls are linked to the recession. Tell us your experiencesGood news for UK employers: employees are calling in sick less often. The Office of National Statistics reports that the average worker now takes just 4.5 days because of ill[...]
2 days ago
Kate Watts, environmental health manager at Great Yarmouth borough council, talks to the Local Government Network about her unique management style
1 week ago
Briefings against the civil service ahead of next month's white paper are highly predictable and undermine its leadersAs if on cue and entirely predictably, thegovernment is having a go at the civil service. When you can't hack it politically, blame your officials.In what looks like a linked set of [...]
1 week ago
Prison officers' union faces injunction as they join striking civil servants, teachers, health workers and police in day of actionPrison officers have been threatened with legal action for holding protest meetings as up to 400,000 public sector employees, including police officers, lecturers and bor[...]
1 week ago
Pressure in the care sector is inevitable but stress isn't, and professionals should support each other to counter its effectsTo answer this question we need to be clear about the distinction between pressure and stress. Pressure is neutral, in the sense that it can be either positive (rewarding, st[...]
1 week ago
More than 400,000 staff including police officers, health workers, teachers and lecturers could be involved in walkoutHundreds of thousands of public sector employees, including police officers, lecturers and border control staff, will stage a day of protest against the government austerity programm[...]
1 week ago
Changes to public sector pensions will establish a common framework, the government says, ahead of further strike actionMinisters are pressing ahead with the controversial reform of public sector pensions ahead of a strike on Thursday 10 May by tens of thousands of workers.A public service pensions [...]
1 week ago
Government plans to overhaul the adoption system have implications for the social care workforceGovernment plans to speed up the adoption process for looked-after children in England have been broadly welcomed by social workers and their managers. But the key recommendation – to halve the time it [...]
1 week ago
Andrew Moss is the victim of a systemic City problem. But Pro-Business Against Greed has exposed a horrific trendThe Aviva pay revolt, which has led to the resignation of its chief executive Andrew Moss, is the result of a spontaneous coalition of people with different interests who felt that his ov[...]
1 week ago
Giving employees control boosts productivity and raises user satisfaction, and the mutual join venture model reduces the risksA real sense of ownership can transform services. Consider, for example, property: homeowners typically put more care and effort into their homes than renters. A hundred year[...]
1 week ago
Planning ahead for a family member with a disability, mental illness or dementia can be daunting. That's where the Cairn Trust comes inName Cairn Trust ManagementFounders Nicola Smith and Sophie DobsonCompany started April 2010Number of employees 2Based GlasgowWhat's the big idea?Helping people set [...]
2 weeks ago
Kenneth Clarke says offering training and jobs to prisoners and ex-offenders will cut reoffending ratesThe government is to encourage major high street chains to employ ex-offenders in a bid to reduce reoffending rates.Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke will address up to 40 retailers, including Marks[...]
2 weeks ago
Instead of giving the dwindling workforce the required tools to tackle reform and cuts, our public servants are left to rely on searching the internet for helpRonald Heifitz, the founder of the centre for public leadership at Harvard Kennedy school, may have an interesting angle to offer on the stat[...]
2 weeks ago
A tribunal has upheld a company's decision to sack an employee for gross misconduct after he posted offensive comments about a co-worker on FacebookWorkers be warned: taking to your Facebook page or another social networking site to make derogatory comments about a colleague is not a wise move. Comm[...]
2 weeks ago
As town halls gear up for polling day, Kate Murray shares public servants' advice on building good working relationshipsWhen inspectors visited West Lindsey council in 2009, they found a local authority in crisis. The relationship between the former council leader and former chief executive had brok[...]
2 weeks ago
Money is just a cargo cult, one that has been wrongly and wilfully elevated to the status of a pseudo-scienceA double-dip recession. Continuing Eurocrisis. A media scandal, already huge, that keeps on growing. Sometimes it's hard to shake the feeling that the dystopian future that all those sci[...]
3 weeks ago
A New York woman who donated a kidney so her boss could move up a transplant waiting list has been sacked. Would you part with a body part for your boss?
3 weeks ago
Study based on mortality rates among 1.5 million retired people in 51 final-salary pension schemes shows variation in life expectancy among pensionersA small Somerset village and an arty Suffolk resort have topped a table for UK life expectancy drawn up by a firm of actuaries, which seems to highlig[...]
3 weeks ago
Care professionals have a long way to go to achieve the level of recognition they deserve, writes Neil ThompsonGovernments in the UK have not valued public services in general and social work in particular. Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's – highly questionable – belief that public services s[...]
3 weeks ago
A sleep disorder where you kick or snore your way through the night can drive people to the verge of divorce. Meet Dr Peter Venn whose mission is to restore peaceIt's late afternoon and I'm sitting in a consulting room deep within the labyrinthine corridors of the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Gri[...]
4 weeks ago
The employment minister attacks the 'Toynbee left' – but his cuts to tax credits hurt low earners mostUnemployment figures just fell by 35,000. Good! "A step in the right direction," said Chris Grayling, the employment minister. But his press release made no mention of one important fact. Indeed, [...]
4 weeks ago
Women in the capital are less likely to work, will earn less if they do, and are more likely to be sexually assaulted, report findsLondon is the worst place to live in the UK if you're a woman, according to a report that reveals that women are less likely to work, earn less than men when they do, an[...]
4 weeks ago
With a record 40,000 people taking the apprenticeship route into adult social care last year, it's now a serious career path optionWhen Hannah Langridge began her public sector career at 17, she became one of the first adult social care apprentices employed by Hertfordshire county council. Six years[...]
4 weeks ago
Young people have been forgotten by government and face an 'unmarked field of landmines' to find a jobThe latest unemployment figures, due on Wednesday, will once again highlight the unacceptable levels of youth unemployment. The last time it was this high was a quarter of a century ago, just as I w[...]
4 weeks ago
Revenue & Customs brings cash into the government's coffers by investigating tax fraud, so why cull its staff?Our chancellor has never been noted for his great communication skills. Over the past few months, however, it would seem that on the issue of tax avoidance, George Osborne has been very clea[...]
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