Government Office For The West Midlands

Government Office for the West Midlands covers regional work for Government departments including Justice, Communities and Local Government, Food and Rural Affairs, Work and Pensions, Transport and the like. The idea is that the Government Office provides a link between Whitehall departments and the West Midlands region, keeping central Departments aware of what is going on regionally, and giving regional workers more understanding of what is going on in central government.
In practical terms, if you work for the public sector within the region, then the government programmes you are working on will most likely form the subject of discussion between central and regional government. Government Office will be asking regional public sector bodies what works for them.
More generally, if you near news on knife crime, childhood obesity or bird flu, then it’s a fair bet that the Government Office has been working on the monitoring of this data with central government, and has been thinking of ways to tackle problems that will be most effective in the West Midlands.
The Government Office has its own website, and you can look on there to see what it is working on at present.