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Wiltshire Police Road Policing
Oldest police force in the country engages with public across 68 social media accounts including neighbourhood police Facebook pages and HQ twitter accounts
CrowdControlHQ has announced that Wiltshire Police is using the company’s social media risk management and compliance platform to manage 68 active social media accounts, including
Continue reading Wiltshire Police manages social media risk using CrowdControlHQ
Telecoms Presence UC
Sennheiser, leaders in premium headset and UC solutions, has been chosen by Knightstone Housing Group to supply a total of 550 headsets to its office-based and contact centre staff, contact centre supervisors and mobile-based staff in a complete refit of the organization. Sennheiser was chosen due to the premium quality
Continue reading Knightstone Housing Group enlists Sennheiser to provide headsets for company-wide Lync implementation
Jamie Horton
Comensura, a labour supply management specialist, expands its leadership in helping the UK public sector procure and manage temporary staffing needs, with three places on new frameworks –MSTAR2, the Cirrus Consortium and National Procurement Service for Wales.
Comensura has retained its position on the highly successful Managed Services for Temporary Agency
Continue reading Hat-trick of public sector frameworks for Comensura
LOCAL authorities are being warned to stay on the right side of the law in the battle to keep traffic on the move.
New guidance laid down by the Department for Transport (DfT)* spells out the legal requirements for variable message signs.
And councils are being urged to ensure all roadside units capable of displaying
Continue reading Councils urged to tread carefully on signage
A group of influential town councils has urged their national body, the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), to campaign for fairer funding to ensure tens of millions of pounds of Government funding is passed on to them.
NALC’s Larger Councils Committee, which represents the interests of larger parish and town councils within the organisation,
Continue reading Town councils in fair funding plea
HP today announced it is partnering with Microsoft Corp. to deliver solutions for the automotive, public sector and financial services industries to help organizations quickly deliver differentiated products and create new revenue through mobile, web and social channels.
HP Business Process as-a-Service (BPaaS) solutions for Microsoft Dynamics® provide organizations with rapid, industry-tailored solutions that allow
Continue reading HP and Microsoft Team to Deliver Digital Transformations for Industries
L to R: Stuart Markland; Liam Browning; James Kendall; James Timbs-Harrison, will row the Atlantic in two hours shifts
Mitsubishi Electric has sponsored All Beans No Monkeys, a team of four men who will row the Atlantic later this year when they take part in the Tallisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
Deemed to be
Continue reading Ecodan prepares for the toughest challenge yet
Jon McGinty
Jon McGinty has been appointed to lead a new working partnership for Gloucester City Council and Gloucestershire County Council.
The joint role is the managing director (MD) – head of paid service – for Gloucester City Council and commissioning director for Gloucestershire County Council.
Mr McGinty is currently deputy chief executive
Continue reading Jon McGinty has been appointed to lead a new working partnership for Gloucester City Council
Paul Connolly
Localism: seen by many as the answer to almost every local government question.
With good reason. Councils are close to the communities they serve. They are more immediately accountable to citizens than Whitehall departments, able to respond faster to what communities want.
And localism has the wind in its sails, as
Continue reading Getting Localism Right
The Stour Valley & Poole Partnership (SVPP) which collects Council Tax on behalf of four Dorset Councils has teamed up with Council Tax Advisors Community Interest Company (CTACIC) to help local people with debt problems.
The initiative coincides with a rise in media attention highlighting the increasing revenues owed to councils and the need to
Continue reading Collecting Council Tax and helping those in debt
New research has revealed that frontline NHS hospitals are losing an estimated £200 million1 a year due to staff being absent from work with muscle and joint injuries.
More than 60% of staff working in Acute Hospital Trusts take sick leave every year, averaging just over 20 days absence each. But that figure rises to
Continue reading LACK OF PHYSIO ACCESS COSTING HOSPITAL TRUSTS £200 MILLION A YEAR
The technology industry’s latest trend, the Internet of Things (IoT), might on the face of it appear as a daunting leap in the dark or as an overhyped consumer fad. Many examples of its use often look good on presentation slides or sound like the sort of thing dreamed up by overactive imaginations in
Continue reading EcoSteer: Benefits the public sector through energy measurement and monitoring
Martin Creswell is Chief Executive of iMPOWER and a member of the MCA Think Tank
Carl Jung once talked of synchronicity, of separate events connected by a form of ‘meaningful coincidence’. Such connections, difficult to explain through the standard scientific method, were somehow deliberate and that the manifestation of one was reliant on
Continue reading Why Demand Management is important to local government
Counter Terror Expo 2015 comes at a time when terrorism and unconventional threat levels across much of the world are at heightened levels. Recent events in France and Nigeria, to pick just two, have accentuated the myriad of different threats that have proliferated since the 1990s. And as the threats have increased and mutated,
Continue reading Counter Terror Expo 2015 to cover key terror threat areas under one roof
Vickers Energy Group welcomed the Permanent Secretary, Director Generals and policy makers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to its Trafford Park site last week to discuss the company’s success in the UK market and its growth overseas.
The visit included a round table discussion about the importance of government support to
Continue reading Vickers Energy Group welcomes Business Innovation and skills to its Trafford Park Headquarters
Hertfordshire County Council is delighted to have been awarded a grant of £4.86m to revolutionise children’s social care in the county.
It is the highest of any grant awarded to local authorities in the UK from the government’s Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
The money will fund a ground-breaking change in the way we approach
Continue reading Hertfordshire County Council awarded grant of £4.86m to revolutionise children’s social care
Cheaper fuel from a CCS Supplier
The Fuel Card Group has signed a Framework Agreement with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), making it easy for public sector vehicles to access cut-price fuel. The Agreement, RM1027 – Fuel Cards and Associated Services, covers all Group brands including The Fuelcard People, Fuel Card Services and
Continue reading Cheaper refuelling simplified for the public sector
The 8point3 LED/HMP Isis partnership, endorsed by Stephen Greenhalgh, Deputy Mayor for Crime and Police, amongst others
8point3 LED helps Swanscombe Leisure Centre achieve significant cost and energy savings through new LED lighting
It is well known that LEDs bring huge cost and energy savings to lighting in the public sector.
Continue reading Partnerships open doors to affordable LED lighting in public sector
Dyslexia Awareness Week started on the 3rd November and runs through till the 9th November, Nuance Communications has announced that it is offering a 10% discount on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Home Premium and Professional editions, and Dragon Dictate for Mac 4, in order to help encourage an equal learning and working environment for people of
Continue reading Dragon Promotional Offer To Support Dyslexia Awareness Week
Occupational physio
Two NHS Trusts in the North of England have turned to Physio Med, one of the UK’s leading physiotherapy providers, to help improve the health of staff and reduce levels of sickness absence.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation Trust have both awarded contracts to Physio
Continue reading NHS Trusts turn to Physio Med to support staff wellbeing – occupational physiotherapy helps reduce sickness absence
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