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In early 2014, the LGA Commissioned the IES to undertake an exploratory research piece on the possible direction for officer roles in council ‘regulatory services' – that is, environmental health, trading standards and licensing.
These guidelines are the output of the Action 'F.OR.M. PACT': multi-level and multi-actor synergies toward the adaptation to social and economic change.
This paper, aimed at policymakers, summarises the findings of a small scale exploratory study of what have recently been called the 'regulatory services' of local government, namely trading standards (TS), licensing (L) and environmental health (EH).
At Barnett Hill on 19th and 20th June 2014, participants of the HR Directors' Retreat were treated to a range of perspectives on innovation. Dilys Robinson has written a full and interesting account of each presentation.
IES was commissioned to develop this employment and skills strategy for Enfield Borough Council. The strategy builds on the Local Economic Assessment which produced a fine-grained picture of Enfield’s economic profile.
Slides on 'Career Development: The heart of Talent Management' which were co-presented by Wendy Hirsh, Principal Associate, IES and Rob Nathan, Director, Career Counselling Services at the HR Network event on Career development on 24 September 2013.
The purpose of this paper to is to review the most recent literature with a focus on (Public Employment Services) PES delivery and policy implementation concerning green skills and jobs, identifying merits and weaknesses of different approaches and transferable core elements.
