Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State at the Department of Trade & Industry has called upon companies to embrace Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and ensure that it is a core element of mainstream business activity.
In a keynote address to a New Local Government Network conference on local partnership and the challenge of CSR, […]

The Liveability Agenda: Working Towards Joined-Up Street Management
One day national conference
Institute of Directors, London SW1, Thursday 5 December
Keynote speaker: Barbara Roche MP, Minister of State, ODPM
Liveability issues and the street environment rides high on the list of priorities that the public wants local authorities to address. Concern about graffiti, vandalism, anti-social behaviour, safety […]

The New Challenge to Local Partnerships:
Local Corporate Social Responsibility’
One day national conference
Thistle Hotel Victoria, London SW1, Tuesday 3 December
Keynote speaker:
Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State, DTI
With strategic partnering now core to local authority delivery and governance, new imperatives are being created. Private and voluntary sector partners are increasingly expected to be accountable and […]

Sir Andrew Foster, Controller at the Audit Commission has issued a plea to local authority officers to embrace their forthcoming CPA assessments and view the process as a willingness on the part of central government to give local government the power it needs to improve local public services.
In a keynote address to an […]