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WHITEHALL

Shadow waiting in the wings

04 March 2009

Caught between Conservative Green Papers dictating the party’s vision for councils, shadow local ...

WHITEHALL

Plugged In

04 March 2009

Are traditional models of procurement for major capital infrastructure projects about to make a s...

WHITEHALL

Up side of the downturn

04 March 2009

As more and more top-class professionals are laid off, and better candidates compete for fewer jo...

WHITEHALL

Innovation is the key to success

04 March 2009

Councils need greater freedom to innovate, if they are to deliver the very best services for loca...

FINANCE

Radical shift needed to avoid 'decade of cuts'

04 March 2009

Councils face a decade of cuts due to zero and minus grant settlements, unless there is a radical...

WHITEHALL

Changing the rules just isn't fair play!

04 March 2009

Both the Government and the Conservative Party have still got a lot to learn from the public’s la...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

A needle in a haystack

04 March 2009

Looking for evidence of child abuse is like searching for a needle in a haystack. But the task is...

Harvesting new homes techniques

04 March 2009

Building affordable, desirable and environmentally-friendly homes would cut carbon emissions, in ...

FINANCE

On track for savings

04 March 2009

In the latest of our series on the regional and improvement efficiency partnerships programme, Pa...

WHITEHALL

Having your say and enjoying it

04 March 2009

Councils really need to be more imaginative if they want people to be more involved in consultati...