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WHITEHALL

Looking into the crystal ball

04 March 2009

Michael Burton reports on a conference last week which looked at the future pattern of public spe...

WHITEHALL

MPs attack CLG delivery

04 March 2009

The CLG must improve its policy delivery to become a ‘big hitter’ within Whitehall, an influentia...

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 ...