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1. UK GOVERNMENT
BETTER REGULATION
EXECUTIVE
Address: http://bre.berr.gov.uk/regulation/
Established in May 2005 to progress the work
of the Regulatory Impact Unit, the better Regulation Executive is
now part of the new Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform. The above webpage contains various useful links,
including guidance on the implementation of the Hampton principles
and the new Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act. The BRE
now has its own website which invites public comments on existing
regulations ( http://www.betterregulation.gov.uk/
). See also the Better Regulation Commission (http://www.brc.gov.uk/ ), an advisory
body created in 2005 to be independent of government.
CABINET OFFICE
Address: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/public_service_reform.aspx
Provides a listing of useful links relating to
public sector reform, including: The Delivery Council, the Contact
Council, the Strategy Unit, the Ceremonial Secretariat, the Charter
Mark, Workforce Matters and the Office of Public Sector
Information.
CABINET OFFICE PERFORMANCE AND
INFORMATION UNIT
STRATEGIC THINKERS
SEMINAR
Address: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/seminars/risk.aspx
Contains details of a seminar on managing risk
and uncertainty.
COMMUNITIES & LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
Address: http://www.communities.gov.uk/
Communities and Local Government has recently
replaced the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. This webpage has
searchable links to a range of risk-related documents, including
technical notes dealing with partnership risk in local
authorities:
(http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/135115
)
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND
RURAL AFFAIRS
Address: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/risk/index.htm
This webpage contains various useful
risk-related guidance documents. Use the search facility to find
DEFRA risk management strategies relating to flood and coastal
erosion.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Address: http://www.dh.gov.uk/
Links to a range of risk-related documents,
including the May 2007 ‘Independence, Choice and Risk: A Guide to
Best Practice in Supported Decision-Making’ which sets out
principles for the management of risk within adult social care,
and proposes a new ‘supported decision tool’ for use by care
practitioners. The June 2007 ‘Best Practice in Managing Risk’
document is also available here.
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND
PENSIONS
Address: http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/
Contains a resource centre with corporate and
policy publications. This gives access to the influential 2007 best
practice guidance on simplification within the benefits system,
which provides valuable and widely applicable tips on what
simplification means and how it can be achieved.
HEALTH & SAFETY
EXECUTIVE
Address: http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/index.htm
Enforcement authority for health and safety
throughout the UK. This webpage provides
practical guidance on risk management,
including an extensive list of industry-specific guides to best
practice. There is also a regular ‘myth of the month’ feature which
seeks to remedy common misperceptions of health and safety
regulation.
HM TREASURY
Address: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
Links for PFI and the Public Spending Review.
Click on the A-Z search facility and look under ‘R’ for ‘Risk
Support’. Clicking on this will take you to an extensive listing of
Treasury documents on risk management.
HM TREASURY
'ORANGEBOOK'
Address:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/3/5/FE66035B-BCDC-D4B3-11057A7707D2521F.pdf
Direct link to the Orange Book 'Management of Risk - Principles and
Concepts', published in October 2004.
INFO4LOCAL
Address: http://www.info4local.gov.uk/
This website is an information gateway
intended to allow local authorities to access news and information
about government departments, agencies and public bodies.
NORTHERN
IRELANDEXECUTIVE
Address: http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/
This website contains an A-Z index which lists
government departments, local authorities and public bodies in
Northern Ireland. Link to these external sites for information
resources dealing with risk management. For example, the Office of
the First Minister and Deputy Prim Minister deals with the ongoing
development of PPP in Northern Ireland and has made publications
available on this topic: (http://www.ofmdfmni.gov.uk/index/economic-policy/public-private-partnership.htm)
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT
COMMERCE
Address:
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sdtoolkit/reference/ogc_library/generic_guidance/risk_hbook.pdf
This website for public sector organisations
includes a ‘successful delivery toolkit’. Go to the ‘introduction
to the delivery toolkit’ section and click on ‘find out more’ to
access various risk-based ‘tools and techniques’.
PRIME MINISTER'S STRATEGY
UNIT
Address: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy
Click on ‘publications’ and scroll down
through the various documents to find the November 2002
publication 'Risk: Improving Government's Capability to Handle
Risk and Uncertainty'.
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
Address: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/
This site contains an extensive list of
publications, including the September 2007 Crerar Review of
Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Scottish
Public Services (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/82980/0053065.pdf
)
WELSH ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENT
Address: http://new.wales.gov.uk/
This website is arranged around topic areas,
including a new topic area dedicated to improving public
services. A wide range of documents produced by the National
Assembly for Wales is available here.
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