Get to London for your next conference day (People make) Sustainable and Innovative Places on Thursday 10 October

Recruitment and retention strategies in local public services

…organisation Make recruitment easier – turn your user-centred service design skills onto your recruitment processes Public sector processes are often time-consuming compared with the private sector. Giving the latter a competitive…

Transforming recruitment and retention

example – a local authority may increasingly have to compete with global technology companies for staff, including in areas with relatively few high-paying private sector employers. A significant fall in…

Newsletter: Back from Birmingham with plenty to think about and do

…from external threats. Read the comic book * Information Commissioner’s Annual Report and Financial Statements 2021-22 How resilient are you? Resilience can set individuals and organisations apart. In Wednesday’s webinar,…

Community resilience

…incidents. The Framework emphasizes the role of LRFs as champions of resilient communities. These are communities where local responders, community groups, businesses, charities, and local leaders not only prepare for

Newsletter: President’s Conference over and out

…us all and shared a video featuring some of the young people that the Trust has been able to help and support. The JustGiving page remains open for another week….

Newsletter: CEO of the Year Nadira Hussain

…Act. Ten public sector e-learning modules accessible only through the Government Commercial College. You and your colleagues are encouraged to sign up to the GCC and complete these modules. They…

How can local government harness data?

…– that people identify with – where a common sense of purpose has been nurtured – not just between organisations, but importantly with different communities. It is these foundations –…

Data standards and architectures

…systems. Prioritise open data, linked data and open application programming interfaces (APIs). Adopt common and open standards for data and avoid closed solutions (such as pdf – easy to consume but maintain data lock-in) where possible in favour…

Newsletter: 42 hours of meetings and training in 1 week

…included in your organisational membership – subject to availability and membership level. If you have any questions or would like further information, please email Sara Razon. On completion of training,…

In Our View, issue 35 (Focus)

…needed to do that day – if only it was just five things – but also to bring your values, your ethics and everything about you into what you do….

Guide to website registration

…users with membership assigned to you. For example, if your organisation’s membership level is Essential, your organisation will have 15 ‘assigned’ users. If you are not one of them, but…

Data hubs

Opening-up data Opening-up data is not just concerned with avoiding unnecessary security constraints and costs. Rather, it involves sharing information openly, internally and externally to improve its quality and value….