Youth cuts could lead to crime rise
The Redditch and Alcester Standard has a nice local piece on cuts to youth services where the council have decided to sell off a building that houses a youth club. The article nicely poses the question of cost cutting versus the unintended effects of those cuts. Councillor Jane Potter is quoted as saying, “I welcome [...]
Does Pickles understand systems?
The Observer reports that Fly-tipping is on the rise as council charges for skips soar. From the article, A survey of 148 council boroughs across the UK reveals that they have raised the cost of skip permits by as much as 650% over the past five years, rises that have corresponded with increases in illegal [...]
Local Council Legal Challenges Mean Waste on Waste
The Birmingham Post reports that High Court rulings in two cases about the budget cuts by Birmingham City Council, mean changes have been halted. Referring to the social services case, the article says that, The financial implications from the latest court case could be serious. The council expects to save about £53 million by 2014 [...]
The alternative to ring-fencing
Age UK has called for the social care budget to be ring-fenced like the money for the NHS has been. They claim that social care has an effect on the NHS and cutting its budget will drive demand into the NHS. They are no doubt right, but they are using a classic silo-thinking trick. They [...]
Local Gov Camp Review – Part Two
This is the second part of the report of the Local Gov Camp – Yorkshire and Humber event. You can read the first part here. I wanted to break it into two since the first part is quite positive, I was very impressed with the enthusiasm of the attendees to firstly come in their own [...]
Local Gov Camp Review – Part One
Today I went to Local Gov Camp – Yorkshire and Humberside to find out about social media in local government. The day was run on an unconference format which is quite like Open Space but even looser, if you can imagine that. Digital Vision The first session was about a digital vision – where do [...]
Rewards will worsen attendance
North Lincolnshire Council is to consider rewarding staff for good attendance and it won’t help a bit. In fact it will make things worse. If you read the agenda for the 9th June 2010 cabinet that will be held this coming Wednesday, you will see it is full of things like “implement check list”, “targets [...]
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