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Local Government Association - The Local Government Association's Internet service 'LGAnet' provides information on the major issues affecting local government and details of current LGA activities.
Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) - The LGIU is an independent research and information organisation supported by councils and the local government trade unions. The site provides general information on their role and activities, as well as providing updates on the latest legal, political and technical information.
UKCouncil.net - Provider of net services for local council modernisation, including webcasting of council mettings, public consultation, and online voting.
Local Agenda 21 UK - Local Agenda 21 is the process of drawing up and implementing local sustainable development plans. This site provides information on how this is being tackled in the UK. Includes press releases and a discussion forum.
New Local Government Network - The New Local Government Network promotes the modernisation of local government through vigorous debate and radical thinking.
SPD North West - The Single Programming Document will influence how European money is spent over the period 2000-2006.
Local Authorities Research and Intelligence Association - Established to promote the role and practice of research within the field of local government and provide a supportive network for those conducting or commissioning research. Site provides news and background information on the LARIA plus publications, jobs and features.
Public Management Foundation - Public Management Foundation, publishers of The Stakeholder Journal
Foundation for IT in Local Government - Independent body which promotes innovation in local democracy and service delivery.
Office for Public Management - Independent centre working to provide management practice and thinking in the delivery of public services.
Association of Local Authority Business Consultants - Aims to keep members up to date with trends and developments which affect their work, to provide a forum for the exchange of expertise and experience, and to raise the profile of consultancy within the local government sector.
Exchanging Information with the Public - Offers information about the work of the EIP Group, a collaboration between UK local councils.
Society of Local Council Clerks - Exists to promote the professional standing and knowledge of its members throughout England and Wales.
PublicNet - Forums and documents for UK public service organizations.
Improvement and Development Agency - Describes the work of the Agency in helping improvement in local authorities, developing the skills of people working in local government and helping local authorities tackle change.
Society of County Treasurers - Provides information about the financing of English local government.
Central Buying Consortium - The largest local authority purchasing consortium in the United Kingdom, covering most of the local authorities in south-eastern and central England. (Access restricted to CBC members.)
Society of Local Authority Chief Executives - The representative body for senior strategic managers working in local government, promoting promotes effective local government and providing professional development for its members.
Trading Standards Net - A consumer protection gateway to advice and information in the UK.
CLASP - Consortium which owns a steel building system for use by Local Authorities to provide buildings for education, community, leisure and emergency services.
Employer's Organisation - Describes the role of the EO in national negotiations on the pay and conditions of local government employees and in providing advice on employment law and related issues.
Local Government International Bureau - Acts as the European arm of the Local Government Association for England and Wales, aiding local authorities to access European grants, promote local government concerns and influence policy.
Local Government Websites - Local Council websites, districts, boroughs and counties - Extensive list of council, county council and borough council websites
nVision: for e-government application - Offers advice and solutions to achieving UK e-government initiative to get local authority services online by 2005.
IPF e-Government Theme - Provides news, information and analysis to assist local councils in implementing electronic government. Also gives details of events relating to the CIPFA e-government forum.
Local Government in the UK - Directory of UK Local Authority websites.
Information for Local Government - Gateway to local government-related information published on the web sites of UK central government departments and agencies.
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM. Responsible for housing, local government, regeneration, planning and urban and regional issues.
Local and Regional Government - Portal to a wide range of information on local governance, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Land Registry - Guarantees the title to registered land in England and Wales and holds records for land ownership and interests.
Modern Local Government - In Touch with the People - UK Government White Paper which sets out a vision of councils listening to the people they serve, building up their communities, working in partnership with others and delivering efficient services to high standards.
Councillor.info - Local Government Association initiative to investigate the ways in which elected local councillors are using the Internet.
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(Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Local Government and the Regions Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Local Government and the Regions "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Local Government and the Regions "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Local Government and the Regions In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Local Government and the Regions If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Local Government and the Regions No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Local Government and the Regions "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Local Government and the Regions I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Local Government and the Regions I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. 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(George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Local Government and the Regions Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Local Government and the Regions "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Local Government and the Regions I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Local Government and the Regions I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Local Government and the Regions
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