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Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Leeds and West Sussex were designated as the four Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funded budget holding lead professional (BHLP) pilot sites for children in care in April 2007. The piloting finished at the end of March 2009. This report is based on information gained through the DCSF funded consultancy support provided by the Office for Public Management (OPM) to each pilot site from January 2008 onwards

An ILM-accredited programme for managers and human resource development professionals.

OPM are offering a range of forthcoming programmes, contact OPM for dates and prices for individual programmes.These programmes are designed to help you lead more effectively, manage change and deliver better public services to improve people’s lives. The workshops, longer-term leadership and management programmes and learning networks can all be tailored for your organisation, partnership or network, and run at a local venue. OPM also offers open events at the London centre. They provide an excellent opportunity to meet and learn with other people whose interests and concerns are similar to yours, and to build your network of contacts. Please see the flyer for more details.

As we explore ways to get more for less, attention focuses on those areas where public spending ‘mops up’ problems that could be prevented. Some Total Place pilots have explored how citizens could take greater responsibility for their own well-being and the well-being of their ‘place’ – and how if we changed our behaviours we could reduce the vast spending on alcohol and drug abuse, energy, waste, obesity, offending, anti-social behaviour etc. Governments have always sought to impact on how people behave, but traditional approaches use tax or financial incentives or financial or legal penalties – and rely on the assumption that we always think and act rationally.

DeMontfort University and Roehampton University in Association with Visionsense UK are hosting a Research Seminar Series on Disablist Hate Crime. Chih Hoong Sin of OPM will be speaking at the first seminar: Understanding and Responding to Disablist Hate Crime and Violence on 4th and 5th May 2010. Here is the programme.