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Harvey Nash
The Times Public Agenda
Deloitte
Improvement & Development Agency
SOLACE
Internet Corporation
UK Government and Local
Government
Local
Government Online—Pathfinders
Pathfinder projects address various aspects of
how to deliver improved services by electronic
means and involve over one hundred local authorities,
working with many private and public companies.
A key aim of the Pathfinder project is to communicate
the learning from it as quickly and efficiently
as possible.
IDEA
Knowledge
A single, internet-based hub of best practice,
ideas and solutions transferring local government
expertise about what works and why.
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/servicefirst/index/guidhome.htm
Local Councils have provided most of the several
hundred ideas for improving public services. It
was set up by the Cabinet Office to help colleagues
in all parts of the public sector find out about
what others are doing.
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/quango
A new site listing details of the many quangos
that help regulate and advise on public life,
and also details of how to join them.
www.regen.net
A new site set up to provide the latest information
on regeneration activities. It offers partnerships
set up under the eight hundred million pound New
Deal for Communities programme the chance to network
and exchange ideas.
Tagish
The Tagish directory of government offices, local
authorities and much, much, more.
Government
Information Service
Office of the
Deputy Prime Minister
Department of Transport, Local Government and
Regions—main site.
Hansard
House of Commons daily debates
Audit
Commission
HM Treasury
The Local Government
Association
The
Improvement and Development Agency
International Government
Links
The
International City Government Resource Centre
listing of international links
USA—International
City / County Management Association (ICMA)
Munisource
World-wide municipal information network
The African
National Congress
European
Secretariat of the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
ICLEI is an international association of local
governments implementing sustainable development.
Its mission is to build and serve a worldwide
movement of local governments to achieve tangible
improvements in global environmental and sustainable
development conditions through cumulative local
actions.
News
Central Office
of Information
The Communication Agency—Government press
releases
The
BBC News
Latest national and international news
Useful Resources
NLGN
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) is an
independent think-tank, seeking to transform public
services, revitalise local political leadership
and empower local communities.
ACTNOW
A site for data protection information and training.
Yougov
YouGov.com provides political news and an interactive
forum to promote open government through making
service-providers more accountable, developing
the mechanism of best value and creating a new
partnership between government and its stakeholders,
the citizens.
www.police.uk
Links to every police force with a website, and
to other related organisations.
Local
Government Information Unit
HMSO
Her Majesty's Stationery Office
The
Stationery Office Online Bookstore
UK Citizens
Online Democracy
Public
Net
The Public Sector Management Web Community
Institute for
Public Policy Research
Kable
Signposts to Government—information technology
in public services
Commission for Racial Equality
SOLACE
Society of Local Authority Chief Executives
SOLACE is the representative body for senior strategic
managers working in local government. The Society
promotes effective local government and provides
professional development for its members and is
funded from member subscriptions, profits from
its commercial company (SOLACE Enterprises) and
sponsorship.
Local Authorities
Civil Enforcement Forum
LACEF supports, supplies advice, and disseminates
information to local authority employed bailiffs/enforcement
officers and their managers.
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