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BUSINESS

IT firms warned over future contracts

14 December 2010

Big pay days for IT firms from public sector contracts are over, business chiefs have been told b...

WHITEHALL

Localism is dead – long live localism

14 December 2010

The Government has failed to grasp the nettle of localism and there is a real danger that new loc...

BUSINESS

Extension agreed for Brum services

10 December 2010

Birmingham City Council has extended its contract with support services giant Capita until March ...

WHITEHALL

District View

09 December 2010

Nicola Bulbeck ponders the questions being asked about life after the Audit Commission.

FINANCE

Plugged In

09 December 2010

The debate on higher education funding should focus on how colleges are run, says Rod Aldridge.

WHITEHALL

Soap Box

09 December 2010

Great teams are built on trust, but it can easily break donw, says Martin Horton.

WHITEHALL

Localism Bill: The five-year plan

09 December 2010

Pickles to set out Coalition’s ‘revolutionary’ strategy for local government with 200-clause Loca...

WHITEHALL

The answer lies in the place

09 December 2010

Implementing spending cuts in silos, without looking across the whole local public sector to all...

WHITEHALL

What next for sector-led improvement?

09 December 2010

The Local Government Group (LGG) has been consulting on creating a new voluntary regime of sector...

Luton leads six-council BSF battle to the courts

09 December 2010

The fight to save several scrapped Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects is set to go to...