After a lovely sunny July, many people will have headed to the coast and perhaps even visit a few seaside towns. However, this week the influential Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think-tank…

BBC News yesterday reported that the government has proposed a number of sentencing options for a fatal dog attack – from five years to life. The consultation for those options…

I recently wrote about the challenges faced by the NHS over increasing use of A&E services. The recent controversy over NHS Direct withdrawing from 111 telephone services is likely to…

Last weekend saw celebrations of the first anniversary of the start of the London Olympics and the question often asked is what impact has this had on better health? At…

News reports over the last few days have talked of an ‘A&E crisis’  with MPs saying staffing issues and rising attendances were among the main causes of the problems. They…

Matthew Taylor of the RSA spoke at the Local Government Association (LGA) conference  – which The Campaign Company (TCC) attended this week – on the issue of different types of…

On Sunday morning TCC’s Nick Pecorelli gave a presentation on how Values can improve local government communications and how they can also be applied at a local level. The Conference…

When I was very young I remember local parks having park keepers, and you could often even get a drink from a drinking water fountain in them. Then from the…

The provision of high quality Consumer Health Information (CHI) – across the NHS, commercial, voluntary and academic sectors is an area growing importance for the following reasons: The greater proliferation…

I recently re-read the IPPR’s publication The Relational State: How recognising the importance of human relationships could revolutionise the role of the state, published in November 2012, which argues that…

Today’s weather made me look back at a blog posting I wrote just over two years ago about the community and institutional response to a heavy snowfall. That work seems…

I was going to write a blog posting on the behavioural background to keeping New Year’s Resolutions, however I have just seen this excellent blog posting from the Cabinet Office…

Building a new psychological contract needs a nuanced understanding of perceptions and motivations of employees. A CIPD paper on leading cultural change in the public sector talks about the need…