The Comprehensive Spending Review may alter the way councils conduct business, unless local government can more efficiently pool activities, a new report concludes.

Independent think tank the New Local Government Network (NLGN) warns in its Politics of Shared Services report that council leaders will need to learn lessons from public sector trailblazers in order to overcome parochial concerns.

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The first independent review of social housing regulation for 32 years was announced today.

As statistics were published showing a 25 per cent jump in the number of new dwellings built since 2002, the government commissioned professor Martin Cave, director of the centre of management under regulation at Warwick University to review social housing laws.

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Voluntary group chiefs have lauded an interim report by the Conservatives entitled Breakdown Britain, which emphasises the important role of third sector organisations.

Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (acevo), praised the report by the Conservative Party Justice Policy Group for recognising the pivotal and unsung work of charity workers and volunteers.

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Richard Tyrie, founder of the recruitment network Jobsgopublic (JGP)

Richard Tyrie is a social entrepreneur who founded the recruitment network Jobsgopublic (JGP). He talks to Ben Stevens about redefining the employment landscape in the public sector

“We’re seeking to transform the way the public and not-for-profit sectors operate, by helping them to apply supply chain principles to the management of talent,” says Richard Tyrie, director and co-founder of JGP, the UK’s leading provider of web-based talent management technology to the public sector.

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West Midlands Regional Star October 2006

Challenge : How can the public sector compete more effectively with the private sector for talented people? One approach is to exploit the public sector’s unique strength – our willingness to collaborate. It would be almost unthinkable for competing private sector companies to collaborate on recruitment activities, but this is exactly what a number of public sector agencies are now doing – using their combined resources and a coherent regional E-recruitment strategy to attract a wider pool of talent.

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