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Councils missing out on shared services cost savings

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Local authorities are failing to use shared services to drive cost savings and efficiency gains, ...

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Councils failing to plan for savings targets

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

A quarter of councils don’t expect to meet savings targets by 2014 and 40% have no approved plan ...

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Re-imagining government

05 June 2011

The inteface of politics, policy and public management fascinates Barry Quirk. Now he has written...

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Blowing hot and cold

By Chris Game | 03 June 2011

A brightly-coloured ‘heat map’ which claims to show levels of local council spending is inaccurat...

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Maude expects annual £3bn savings from central purchasing team

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

Whitehall departments may save up to £3bn a year from the centralised purchasing of common goods ...

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Union fury at Service Birmingham's 'outrageous' offshoring decision

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

Unions have called on Birmingham City Council to halt plans to outsource more than 70 IT jobs to ...

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Local say so

01 June 2011

Giving people a direct say in setting budget priorities could help deliver better services, sugge...

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Ex-NAO boss doubts savings can be made

By Jonathan Werran | 01 June 2011

Sir John Bourn, former head of the National Audit Office, has cast further doubt over the Governm...

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'More partnerships' to finance future services

By Mark Conrad | 01 June 2011

Successful councils of the future will be increasingly ‘agnostic’ about how they finance and deli...

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Worries over cuts to funds for child asylum-seekers

By Mark Conrad | 01 June 2011

Councils risk breaching a duty to care for unaccompanied child asylum-seekers, if plans to cut de...

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frederica-diamanta

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Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job

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You will join a values-driven senior leadership team, providing visible and responsive leadership. Apply for this job

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