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		<description>Video and audio podcasts from Local Government Employers (LGE)</description>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
		<lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Video and audio podcasts from Local Government Employers (LGE)</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>LGE has launched a series of podcasts that outline key issues in local government.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Local Government Employers</itunes:author>
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			<itunes:name>Local Government Employers</itunes:name>
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			<title>Local government workforce strategy - video podcast</title>
			<link>http://www.lge.gov.uk/lge/core/page.do?pageId=807490</link>
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			<description>Workforce issues need to remain a high priority for all authorities in order to ensure that local government achieves its ambitions. This video podcast outlines some of the actions, progress and learning achieved, locally, regionally and nationally, since the Local Government Workforce Strategy 2007 was published in November of that year.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<itunes:author>Local Government Employers</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle>Workforce issues need to remain a high priority for all authorities in order to ensure that local government achieves its ambitions.</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>This video podcast outlines some of the actions, progress and learning achieved, locally, regionally and nationally, since the Local Government Workforce Strategy 2007 was published in November of that year.</itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>00:05:58</itunes:duration>
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			<title>Local government workforce strategy - audio podcast</title>
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			<description>In this audio podcast we hear from a selection of speakers and attendees at the recent workforce strategy review event held in London, each of whom share their insights and achievements around the strategy's five priority areas.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<itunes:author>Local Government Employers</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle>Workforce issues need to remain a high priority for all authorities in order to ensure that local government achieves its ambitions.</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>In this audio podcast we hear from a selection of speakers and attendees at the recent workforce strategy review event held in London, each of whom share their insights and achievements around the strategy's five priority areas.</itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>00:14:22</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>workforce, strategy, local, government</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Dealing with equal pay - video podcast</title>
			<link>http://www.lge.gov.uk/lge/core/page.do?pageId=658436</link>
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			<description>Equal pay continues to be a really difficult issue in local government. This video podcast outlines what LGE is doing to help councils deal with the situation and includes interviews from Jan Parkinson, LGE Managing Director, 					Mick Brodie, Director North East Regional Employers Organisation, and Jim Savage, Corporate Director for Organisational Development, Cumbria County Council.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<itunes:author>Local Government Employers</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle>Equal pay continues to be a really difficult issue in local government.</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>This video podcast outlines what LGE is doing to help councils deal with the situation and includes interviews from Jan Parkinson, LGE Managing Director, Mick Brodie, Director North East Regional Employers Organisation, and Jim Savage, Corporate Director for Organisational Development, Cumbria County Council.</itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>00:05:03</itunes:duration>
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			<title>Dealing with equal pay - audio podcast</title>
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			<description>In this audio podcast, Jim Savage, Corporate Director for Organisational Development at Cumbria County Council shares his and other councils' experiences of dealing with equal pay issues. Jan Parkinson, LGE managing director also outlines what LGE is doing to help councils deal with the situation.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<itunes:author>Local Government Employers</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle>Equal pay continues to be a really difficult issue in local government.</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>In this audio podcast, Jim Savage, Corporate Director for Organisational Development at Cumbria County Council shares his and other councils' experiences of dealing with equal pay issues. Jan Parkinson, LGE managing director also outlines what LGE is doing to help councils deal with the situation.</itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>00:08:33</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>equal, pay, local, government</itunes:keywords>
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