“The only constant is change” – Heraclitus The public sector in the UK is currently experiencing unprecedented levels of change. Increased demand and budget cuts have resulted in large-scale transformation programmes. Change has become a constant feature of the landscape, […]
By Donna Gardiner New Shared Parental Leave legislation came into force in England, Scotland and Wales on the 1st December 2014. The legislation provides much greater flexibility in regards to how parents care for their child over the first year […]
[slideshare id=42519242&w=476&h=400&sc=no] This presentation was given by our director, Rebecca Riley, at our recent event ‘Investing in Knowledge – improving services and decision-making‘. It explores different decision making models and how services like The Knowledge Exchange inform different stages of the […]
By Donna Gardiner Pay accounts for a large proportion of public sector expenditure and so it’s perhaps unsurprising that in the current context of ‘do more with less’, there has been renewed interest in using pay to help drive performance […]
By Stephen Lochore ‘Big data’ is big news! Along with its close relative ‘open data’, it’s part of the latest thinking about how managing information can help bring about better services. The rough idea is to use new technology and […]
In the latest of our series of posts looking at the work of housing associations, Tony McLaughlin explains how managing information supports activities across the Wheatley Group. By Tony McLaughlin, Research and Policy Officer, the Wheatley Group Comparing the volume […]
By Donna Gardiner As one in six employees will suffer from mental ill health at some point during their working lives, ensuring the wellbeing of employees is increasingly becoming a management priority (EU-OSHA, 2014). Indeed, the financial cost to British […]
By Stephen Lochore The Knowledge Exchange has helped a range of public sector organisations to collate, analyse and disseminate their evaluation and research material. One example is the Evaluations Online portal, a publicly accessible collection of evaluation and research reports […]
In our second blog on housing associations we look at why they are consistently cited as great places to work and what the future might hold for them. by Brelda Baum Housing associations (HAs) are perceived to be great places […]
We’ll be looking at housing and particularly the work of housing associations over the next couple of weeks. In our first blog of three on the theme Ronnie Clawson from Riverside talks about Corporate Social Responsibility and how integral it […]
