Focus newsletter

$www\focus\content\focus.gif$ Focus is the bi-monthly newsletter of Local Government Employers. The newsletter aims to provide the latest information on all aspects of pay, pensions and employment issues in the local government arena.

Latest issue

Focus - September 2010

How can local government contribute to the reduction of the public deficit?

Recent issues

Focus - January 2010

How are the interests of local government best served in terms of pay and core conditions of service?
Focus - issue 02/09, August 2009

Getting people into work needs to become mainstream business for local authorities. In his Tackling Worklessness Review, Councillor Stephen Houghton, Leader of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, says local authorities can use their position as both employers and procurers to tackle worklessness, and defines a new framework for the skills and employment agenda.
Focus - issue 01/09, April 2009

Many local authorities are restructuring services in response to tighter resources coupled with increased customer expectations. But service transformation only fully works if people change their behaviour, which is where culture change comes in.
Focus - issue 02/08, December 2008

This edition highlights the work that the IDeA and LGE are doing to help local authorities maximise their existing workforce capabilities through better planning, to ensure that their workforce is fit for the future.
Focus - issue 01/08, October 2008

This edition of the re-launched focus newsletter looks in detail at equal pay issues and recent developments.