Councils’ ‘outmoded’ management models must be modernised, if service delivery is to improve, a l...
Edinburgh City Council has struck a deal with BT, which will save £250,000 a year.
Chris Leslie welcomes the White Paper’s plans for community budgets, and asks why the same princi...
Last week we had the world’s media at our doorstep. Phones didn’t stop ringing and the e-mails ch...
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Councils should refuse contractors who ask for extra fees to make changes to their private-financ...
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The success of a city depends as much on its ‘personality’ as other contributing factors, a new b...
'Tougher at the top' is the latest Audit Commission report, issued in July. The document examines...
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