Raising your reputation

摘要

There has never been a more difficult -or exciting - time to work in local government communications. Central government has commissioned Sir Michael Lyons to carry out a wide-ranging review of how councils operate and a government White Paper is expected before the end of the year. In the meantime, noises from Whitehall are indicating the new direction in which we are being expected to move. Earlier this summer, speaking at the LG Communications annual conference the minister for local government, Phil Woolas, spoke of the increasingly-important role councils had in shaping our local areas.