The taskforce brought together several government departments – the Department of Justice, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine – as well as the attorney general's office and the police.
The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
New civil penalties for employers who break the rules will be fast-tracked and a new Employers Taskforce, bringing together the CBI, TUC, and government will help develop ways to drive out bad practice.
They have been mapping the city's waterways since 2010, and also organise expeditions and weekend taskforces, bringing teams of volunteers together to clean up neglected rivers and streams.
The cabinet has decided to set up a taskforce, which brings together five government departments and the Irish police, and will be chaired by Simon Coveney, minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).
This new taskforce will bring together all the agencies we need to tackle rough sleeping as we will only make a difference through close partnership.
"A lot of people say that it's unusual that you don't have an MLS team when the sport means so much to you, but the reason is that we just haven't had the right venue," Jim Woodcock, a member of Missouri governor Jay Nixon's taskforce for bringing a new stadium to the city, said.
They sought considered advice from a range of experts, often through a front-on public taskforce approach to bring direct effort and resources to these problems of the day.
By the time she took over three years ago, the scale of the initiative had shrunk, and she admits that there had been a "drop in momentum", but Blair was keen to reinvigorate the concept before his departure and relaunched it under her lead as the taskforce, which he brought back into the Cabinet Office from the deputy prime minister's department, albeit with a much smaller staff.
To date, the Taskforce does not bring in any representatives from business, unions or civil society.
