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SERVICE DELIVERY
Designing public services that work
By Ravi Gurumurthy | 16 December 2025
Increasing take-up and participation is not always easy, but progress can often be made quickly, at relatively low cost and reach the people who most need reaching, says Ravi Gurumurthy.
PROCUREMENT
Creating winning Partnerships with the sector
By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2025
Introducing Assure3C, a new structured process for strategically managing service contracts.
PROCUREMENT
Good Contract Management: The Foundation for Economic Growth and Value
By Rekha Thawrani | 04 December 2025
Good contract management is fundamental to place-shaping, enabling local authorities to deliver t...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation threat to district services
By Neil Merrick | 23 September 2025
Services provided by district councils must not become an early casualty of local government reor...
REORGANISATION
Future Forum Midlands: Reorganisation should prize services over structures
By Martin Ford | 11 September 2025
Councils preparing for reorganisation have been urged to focus on delivering better services for ...
POLITICS
Total Place: The next generation
By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025
The Government is exploring how it can build on the legacy of Total Place by testing the pooling ...
LGA CONFERENCE
Central and local government will transform the country for the better
By Georgia Gould | 03 July 2025
Writing in the week of the LGA Conference, Jim McMahon and Georgia Gould say this government was ...
FINANCE
Relieving the pressure on public finances
By Piali Das Gupta | 03 July 2025
Local government must be properly resourced for any new duties it is tasked with, writes Piali Da...
SERVICE DELIVERY
Forging the future
By Martin Ford | 25 June 2025
With the sector in crisis and the need for radical change, fundamental questions are being asked ...
WHITEHALL
Helping folk stay afloat
By Chris Naylor | 25 June 2024
Chris Naylor says his intuitively simple vision is for a neighbourhood-based preventative state –...
WHITEHALL
Service cuts likely, think-tank warns
By Ellie Ames | 21 June 2024
Councils could be forced to cut back service provision if cost and demand pressures continue to g...
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