As cross-party talks on social care reform bring the future funding of elderly care into the spotlight, Ian Stone, sales, marketing and development Director at apetito examines the vital role ...

Public sector organisations are not strangers to budget cuts. The traditional approach was to stop doing things that had no legal mandate and match expenditure to the reduced budget available. The ...

Communities and Local Government have set out a baseline for evaluating the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative which funds twenty partnerships to increase levels of enterprise in deprived areas. The ...

David Miliband, Minister of Communities and Local Government, has set out a vision for local government where power is moved down from Whitehall to councils and from councils to citizens. He has ...

This SOCITM report sheds some light on the impact of outsourcing local authority ICT services, suggesting that authorities with significantly outsourced ICT services spend 25% more per user and that ...

Partnerships of health service, local government, voluntary groups and local citizens across Scotland are working to encourage people to be more active. The initiative is being steered by the Scottish ...

By Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro and Ian Kessler.Given that the contingent worker is likely to be a familiar presence in the public service workplace of the future, this paper explores the ...

By Conor RyanThe pamphlet recognizes recent improvements in education but highlights weaknesses. A quarter of children are unable to read and write adequately, there are problems with much teacher ...

By Peter BramleyTraining evaluation is much more than finding out if the training was delivered effectively. The author argues that there should be evaluation before any training takes place to find ...

By Larraine SegilEverything the author says in this book about the ten essential traits for managers is based on personal experience. Everything she recommends she has done herself. This presentation ...

By Jonathan WolffRedistribution may be moving back up the political agenda – but what do we actually mean by redistribution? Even once we are agreed that an inequality ought to be rectified, there are ...

By Robert JonesAs the system of Best Value develops and matures, this article argues that there is a need within the literature for more research into the micro-management processes of public ...