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The London Borough of Lewisham has prioritised worklessness for several years. Through their Total Place pilot and additional ethnographic research, the borough recently examined the support their unemployed residents receive from local and national welfare-to-work services.

The Big Society Café at the recent Local Government Association (LGA) conference gave senior leaders from local authorities a valuable opportunity to get together informally and talk about how local authorities can shape and grow the Big Society in their areas.

Do you want to help reduce the carbon footprint of your organisation? To improve your environmental performance good commissioning is essential. This flyer describes a workshop that OPM can run for you on commissioning and the environment.

Ewan King, Director at the Office for Public Management, spoke at about building cohesive and resilient communities at the conference Community Cohesion 2010 in London on the 15 July.

This is the flyer for a half-day workshop we are running in September. Explore the scope, opportunities and challenges of new delivery models of employee and user ownership.

What's it like managing a personal budget for your social care? This paper provides reflections from a three-year study being undertaken by OPM in partnership with the Essex Coalition of Disabled People in order to understand what it is like to manage a personal budget from the perspective of service users and their relatives.