The Regional Co-ordination Unit and the Government Offices for the Regions

The Government Offices for the Regions (GOs), and their corporate centre, the Regional Co-ordination Unit (RCU), play an increasingly pivotal role at the heart of Government. Government Offices' have responsibility for delivering policy in the regions, and their multi-Departmental constitution, makes them ideally placed to implement crosscutting initiatives, and to advise Departments on successful implementation strategies at regional and local level.

Since May 2002 the RCU and GOs have been part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The ODPM has taken on new responsibilities for housing, planning, regeneration and regional and local services from the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) which has been split up.

Latest News

1) Regional Economic Performance (REP) PSA


2) Government Office Prospectus

The latest version of the Government Office Prospectus is now available. This report highlights just some of the activities carried out by Government Offices to help sponsor Departments meet their Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets – there are a multitude of other projects and activities not featured in this report.

3) Government Office Network senior management wall chart

This is the latest version of the senior management wall chart for the Government Office Network

4) HM Treasury published the Green Paper titled " Every Child Matters"

The overall aims of the paper are to:

• Ensure no child falls through the net and help every child to achieve their potential.
• Shift the balance towards prevention through tackling child poverty, improving early years education and childcare, raising school standards and supporting parents
• Intervene earlier before children reach crisis point.