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British Transport Police’s head of suicide prevention and mental health Mark Smith, branding expert Nick Wright, and Sue Chadwick, corporate lawyer and joint deputy monitoring offi cer at Essex County Council, are among our contributors.
08 News 15 Company News 19 Inbox ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY p39-41 20 Comment 69 Buyers Guide 70 Jobs PROCUREMENT AND FINANCE p56-61 77 Events 78 The Last Word LEGAL
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Jim Bennett is Corporate Director at the Homes & Communities Agency, where he specialises in work on urban and housing policy,
- John Biggs AM, London Assembly, p52
worklessness and homelessness. The Homes & Communities Agency provides investment for new housing and regulates social housing providers.
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Graeme McDonald is Director of Policy & Communications at the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE),
which represents senior managers working in the public sector. Graeme specialises in policy development and change management.
Chris Painter is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at Birmingham City University, having held the post of head of the school of social
sciences there for nine years. He is also Vice Chair of governors at King Edward VI college.
The new economics foundation’s Joe Penny on public sector outsourcing, plus details of the new public procurement reforms coming out of the Cabinet Offi ce.
TRANSPORT AND FLEET p62-68
Southampton City Council local sustainable transport fund project manager Adrian Webb discusses the way mapping has improved cycling and RoadSafe director Adrian Walsh on driving safety.
The Carbon Trust explains the benefi ts for the public sector of its new green business directory, and PSE reports on the future of the water industry – and how competition could cut public sector organisations’ water bills.
IT AND DATA p42-54
Simon Rice, group manager for technology at the Information Commissioner’s Offi ce (ICO) discusses legacy IT disposal, and Digital Government Security Forum secretary John Thornton on public sector cyber-risks.
PARTY CONFERENCES 2013 p26-30
The PSE team reports from the major party conferences, with a round-up of news and photos from the conference halls and the fringe sessions.
EFFICIENCY AND HR p31-38 PSE speaks to Althea Loderick, Waltham Forest’s director of human resources, about the borough’s recent success at the CIPD People Management Awards, plus Wokingham Borough Council’s Kevin Mercer.
26-30 PARTY CONFERENCES 2013 42-54 IT AND DATA
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