Management of Planning Services

23-Feb-07

GPN3: Personal Safety at Work: Risk assessment, avoiding conflict and carrying out safer site visits and meetings

(October 2006)

Personal safety is a responsibility shared by the employer, the manager and the individual member of staff. Taking care of yourself and your colleagues is the basis of all good work practice and helps to improve the service offered to clients. This good practice note focuses on: risk assessment; training and developing procedures.

We can do Better: Opportunities for the Planning Profession

Heather Kerwell and RTPI (2001)

Advises the RTPI and planning practitioners on what action should be taken to maximize the opportunities for the profession in the context of the modernisation of local government and the planning service.

The Appointment of Consultants by Public Authorities

RTPI (2000)

Guidance for members in the public sector responsible for engaging; and establishing working relationships with consultants.

Planners as Managers: Shifting the Gaze: A Summary of Commissioned Research

Marilyn Higgins, Alan Prior, Sarah Boyack, Teresa Howard, Jean Krywko and RTPI (1994)

Aims to establish the key principles concerning the interaction between planning and management; to identify the managerial knowledge and skills needed by planners, and to provide a review of the opportunities available to meet those needs.

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